What are people views on worm grunting or summoning? I am wondering through worm grunting would be a beneficial method in learning how to identify worms and enable people to share more worm observations. I have seen many Instagram reels about worm grunting on the positive view but I wonder if there …

I’ve done it before, not for iNatting, but for… gently ‘abducting’ earthworms for my compost bin. Are you tricking them? Yes. Are you wasting their time? Yea, probably. The important thing is that you’re not hurting them. I expect that they return back down into the soil not long after the grunting…

Here in the Eastern USA, worms are most likely the invasive kind.

Given that you’re using them for composting, I’m sure they’ll think of your ‘abduction’ as a miraculous first-class upscale of their economy ticket

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