invasive worms
While reading the last issue of The Penna. Fish & boat mag. I came across a field note from a WCO describing an invasive specie of worm called the Asian Jumping worm. After googleing it I found out that it is actually destructive to the soil. They look a lot like reg.nightcrawlers except that the band around the top section is not raised like a crawler's is. They are very quick & agile & if you squeeze them too hard they will break off in their effort to get away. I was trying to get a couple,not knowing that they were different,but they were very hard to catch even though they stay on top of the ground. I had a styro.coffee cup that I was going to keep them in til I got back to fishing but I couldn't keep them in without a lid.Also even tho they were so active I didn't get a bite on them. I was told that if I got any more that the best thing to do with the extras would be to kill them but not to take the live ones to another place. Was cool to see something so interesting. sam