Annise Dobson, a postdoctoral researcher at the Yale School of Environment, leads a hike at the Hubbard Recreation and Natural Area on climate change impacts in the field and forest,
https://www.afinalwarning.com/515228.html (Natural News) Jumping worms are wreaking havoc in the ecosystems and garden soils of at least 15 U.S. states. Also known as crazy worms, Alabama jumpers and snake worms, they violently thrash when handled and shed their own tails to escape when put under duress.
Mature jumping worms are between four and five inches long. They have been sighted in New York, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Missouri, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Ohio, Texas, Louisiana, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Tennessee and Oklahoma.
Originating in East Asian countries Korea and Japan, jumping worms can quickly proliferate in a garden or forest, where their life cycle plays out in leaf litter and the top inch or two of soil. The worms of the genus