Red Worm on My Window
This morning when I was about to toss some garbage into the can out on my deck, I encountered a rather bizarre situation! A Red Worm was literally climbing up the outside of my deck door! I’ve seen a lot of weird things in my years of vermicomposting, but this might take the cake!
I know other species, such as Blue Worms (Perionyx excavatus) and African Nightcrawlers (Eudrilus eugeniae) are known for their crazy roaming (especially during really rainy conditions) – some literally being found in the tops of trees and tall buildings – but I’ve never encountered anything like this with Red Worms. They certainly like to be ‘out and about’ a bit during really rainy dark days – but climbing tall buildings (with a single wiggle? haha) is definitely a bit different.
I was half expecting to see a seething mass of worms from my outdoor windrows crawling up my fence and/or out over the sidewalk, but I actually encountered very few other Reds out. Interestingly enough, I DID find a couple more on the same door when I opened it and looked around.
As a way to celebrate this unique occurrence, I decided to write a little ditty…
“Red Worms on my window,
I don’t know why they’re there!
Red Worms on my window,
I just can’t help but stare!
Red Worms on my window,
It must be all this rain!
Red Worms on my window,
Perhaps they are insane?
Doo doo, yeah yeah,
Red worms on my windowwwwwwwwwwww!”
Thank ya…thank ya very much!
Written by Bentley on April 8th, 2010 with
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#1. April 8th, 2010, at 4:52 PM.
Very nice ditty, Bentley. You did not tell us what tune to sing your Ode-to-the-Red-Worm-Lymric to. May I suggest the tune to “Give me that Fillet-O-Fish, Give me that Fish” that McDonald came up with which is very difficult to get out of your head!