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Posted: Mar/12/2009 6:36 AM PST
Ice has jammed up, as it does every spring, at a tight corner of the creek behind me. This results in flooding upstream. I've been watching a stretch of floodplain, about 500' wide, that has been underwater for about two weeks now. Surely all of the earthworms must be drowned. Do they re-colonize every year? I've done some tree transplanting here, & couldn't guarantee that I saw an earthworm...I just assumed they were here. It seems that if they do re-establish, they would be spread pretty thin. Thanks for any ideas. |
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Posted: Mar/12/2009 7:11 AM PST
On a large river, like the Mississippi, where the flooding is miles wide, wouldn't it take years, or decades, to re-colonize? |
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Posted: Apr/01/2009 6:29 PM PST
Having witnessed a flood in my hometown last year i know that worms will move to dryer soil when there is flooding unless they get stuck on concrete. I spent a week saving worms from the flood water that got washed onto a huge driveway. About 400 in all i put them in a bag of soil i bought at the store and gave them a piece of bread and they were fine till the water returned to normal levels and i just put them back where they came from. I also housed about 15 turtles during that time but i dont recomend that. |
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