Red Worms Love Avocado?
Ball of Red Worms inside an avocado skin
Continuing with the ‘Red Worms Love…’ theme today, I thought it would be fun to post this picture I took fairly recently and just came across this morning in one of my worm picture folders. This was in the ‘older’ bin mentioned in the last post. When I opened up the lid I was quite surprised to see this writing mass of worms balled up in an avocado skin – I’m pretty sure there were actually quite a few more worms when I first opened the bin, but some left the scene when I went to get the camera (that’s my story, and I’m sticking to it!).
I wouldn’t have expected avocado to be a great worm food. It has a high oil content and would likely go anaerobic very easily. We eat avocado quite regularly (it IS a ‘miracle food’ after all – haha) and I always add the left-overs to my kitchen scraps collection, but I’m definitely going to start paying more attention to how the worms react to it.
I’d be interested to know if anyone else has tried adding it to your bins?
By the way, if you are looking for another food that worms seem to LOVE – try cantaloupe!
Close-up of the avocado worm ball – you can see some mites feasting on some avocado up to the left
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Written by Bentley on April 8th, 2008 with
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#1. April 9th, 2008, at 6:38 PM.
I have just started up a worm bin (I am waiting on a delivery of a pound of worms). I started the bin with some leftover fishing worms (about 15 redworms) I had a couple weeks back. Well I just got home from work today and checked out how the worms were doing and I had trouble locating them until I noticed they were all balled up in an avocado husk. I came inside to check out this site (which is very helpful to a new vermicomposter) and see you had done an article on what I just saw. What a coincidence.