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Invasive jumping worms spreading across Wisconsin, DNR advises to keep an eye out
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Invasive jumping worms spreading quickly in Wisconsin
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Most of Wisconsin has no native earthworms What s with that?
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Tiny, wriggling horrors are hatching right now, under our feet, across the country.
No, not the billions of Brood X cicadas emerging throughout the eastern US. I’m talking instead about baby invasive “crazy worms” that thrash through garden, farm, city, and forest soil, growing to 3 to 6 inches in length, sucking up nutrients, and transforming rich leaf litter into coarse droppings. All while laying nearly 20 hardy worm cocoons a month, without needing a mate.
Variously known as jumping worms, snake worms, Alabama jumpers, and Jersey wrigglers, common
Amynthas species are a super-powered version of the more familiar, squishy languidness of the garden-variety European earthworms (whose genus name,
The worms, thought to have been brought to North America in the 19th century as fishing bait or in imported plants, have been spotted in Oregon, California, Missouri, Illinois, Iowa, Texas, Louisiana, Indiana, Minnesota, Kentucky, Tennessee, Maryland, Virginia and New York, among other states.
“These worms are known to change the soil structure, deplete available nutrients, damage plant roots, and alter water-holding capacity of the soil,” Nicole Flowers-Kimmerle, a horticulturist for University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, wrote in a blog post this month. “This is especially a concern in our forests, where organic matter is limited. It is important to stop the spread of jumping worms.”