This is a public-interest archive. Personal data is pseudonymized and retained under GDPR Article 89.

Re: gardenwriters Digest, Vol 6, Issue 10

Gene Bush said, " When I was a lad my father used a long pole to knock worms from the
trees in our front yard. It was my job to pick them up and place then in a
bucket with a lid having holes punches in the top. He then used them as bait
when fishing. Tree was the Catalpa, or Indian Bean. Father refereed to the
big green worms as catalpa worms. Any chance this could be your "leaf worm"?

and Lon wrote to me offlist saying, "A leaf worm isn't an earthworm, it's a leaf eating larva. In this case, it's probably the so-called "Catalpa Worm" as it feeds on the Catalpa tree. It's highly prized by fishermen. Sorry, but I don't have the scientific name."

to which I reply. . .

This is a perfect case in point, because the leaf worms sold by bait dealers here in Michigan are definitely earthworms. I don't know if they are Apporectodea turgida or Lumbricus rubellus or Octolasion cyaneum or some other species. I usually can tell Lumbricus rubellus, but I am not convinced that's what these are.

Yes, I know about Catalpa Worms which are insect larvae, and which are used for bait.

Mary Appelhof



--

Mary Appelhof, Author of "Worms Eat My Garbage" with over 150,000
copies in print and still selling

Flowerfield Enterprises,10332 Shaver Road,Kalamazoo, MI 49024 USA

PLEASE NOTE NEW AREA CODE: PH:269-327-0108 FAX 269-327-7009





"Changing the way the world thinks about garbage"



New issue of WormEzine is out. Subscribe at:
http://www.wormwoman.com or download archives in PDF format.

_______________________________________________

gardenwriters mailing list

gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org

http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/gardenwriters



GWL has searchable archives at:

http://www.hort.net/lists/gardenwriters



Send photos for GWL to gwlphotos@hort.net to be posted

at: http://www.hort.net/lists/gwlphotos



Post gardening questions/threads to

"Organic-Gardening" <organic-gardening@lists.ibiblio.org>



For GWL website and Wiki, go to

http://www.ibiblio.org/gardenwriters











Other Mailing lists |
Author Index |
Date Index |
Subject Index |
Thread Index