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Calling Nightcrawlers

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Tim B

09-22-2003 13:12:09

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This is somewhat off topic, but someone on this forum knows something about just about everything, so ...

I have experienced nightcrawlers and other worms comming up to the soil surface when I am digging; usually when I am working on a rock that is banging another rock. I have also heard that you can do this with an electric power source, but you need lots of power (dangerous).

Anyone know of a way to "call" nightcrawlers that actually works? I need to get worms and other bugs out of some wetland peat (for work, believe it or not). I'll be analyzing these bugs for chemical contaminants, so I can't use any chemicals. (Once when I drained onto the ground the chlorinated disinfecting water from my camper (shame on me) they came up by the hundreds, but I can't, and don't want to use this technique).

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Art

09-24-2003 09:24:45

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Re: Calling Nightcrawlers in reply to Tim B, 09-22-2003 13:12:09

my Dad made an "electric worm diggerupper" back in the "60"s for us kids out of an old crank telephone. The two wires coming out of it went to a couple of brass 1/8th rods about 24" long, that you would stick in the ground. Then just crank away, like you were calling Mabel down the street....Presto ...worms come out of the ground like there was no tommorow....Works best after a rain....Had alot more fun w/ that than it was designed for...but that's another story for later.....

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Polish Mike

09-23-2003 04:59:26

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Re: Calling Nightcrawlers in reply to Tim B, 09-22-2003 13:12:09

Pound a 2x4 stake into the ground a foot or so, then drag the face of an axe across the top of the stake so it makes a screeching sound. The vibrations will make the worms come outta the ground. (I think I first read this in the old Boy Scout Handbook about 40 years ago...don't know if it's in the newer edition....I tried it then & it worked real well). Not as high tech as using electricity..... ..... .

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ShepFL

09-23-2003 11:17:06

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Re: Re: Calling Nightcrawlers in reply to Polish Mike, 09-23-2003 04:59:26

Same thing as mentioned above but substitute axe with brick. Use smooth surface of the brick and the come up I guess to avoid the vibrations in the ground.

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thurlow

09-23-2003 13:52:58

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Re: Re: Re: Calling Nightcrawlers in reply to ShepFL, 09-23-2003 11:17:06

Have heard of using a single leaf from a set of springs to "rub" with.....

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09-22-2003 14:30:36

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Re: Calling Nightcrawlers in reply to Tim B, 09-22-2003 13:12:09

2 techniques work pretty good on dirt but im not sure about in peat. Normally on an evening when its gonna be over 60 degrees out I wet the ground down good in the evening then around 10 or 11 pm the nightcrawlers will ocme to the surface. As far as shocking you can do it with a 12 volt car battery using metal rods driven a couple feet into the ground and spaced about 3 feet apart. Hook one battery cable to each rod and the crawlers will surface soon

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rustyfarmall

09-22-2003 16:18:52

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Re: Re: Calling Nightcrawlers in reply to LH, 09-22-2003 14:30:36

I remember hearing stories about using the generator out of the old hand crank telephones, much the same as what you described using the 12 volt battery.

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Mike w J

09-22-2003 18:20:11

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Re: Re: Re: Calling Nightcrawlers in reply to rustyfarmall, 09-22-2003 16:18:52

my grandfather made a 120 volt worm getter he put a steel rod about 2 feet long with a wood 2\2 handle then hooked a power cord to it with the neutral wire not connected he plugged it in to a wall outlet and the worms came out real fast but to pick them up he had to unplug because with wet shoes he would get a shock later he found a place that sold them made the same way he said the shock was safe but very unpleasent

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