I was digging today and just thinking the soil is warming up, the worms are surfacing again and the they are again getting active... then suddently I thought I was hallucinating...
I didn't believe it... I thought worms laid eggs, but no, they give birth to live worms, and today I watched one... As I dug the soil, I bent down to rescue a worm, when I saw one small worm clung it it, suddenly there were two, and just as I thought my eyes were decieving me ::) a third popped out. I watched in stunned silence, then picked her up with her babies and put them safely back under some turned over soil ;D
I still didn't believe what I had witnessed, so came home, did a google search, and yep, I did see what I thought I saw! Poor worm, I disturbed her in her moment of privacy. But I do feel priveleged to witness such an event. ;D
The benefits of having an allotment are sometimes very diverse ::) or maybe I am just "sad" at getting excited at seeing this "at my age" - Oh and I have always liked worms; I used to be the school kid to pick up worms for my classmates, when we had to find them ;)
mat
Mat, I would ahve done the very same. Aint nature wonderful ??
OH was once digging in our Rose plot and dug up a field voles nest. He didn't know what to do with them all. He shouted on me to see them all and I carefully put them all back again, into the soil enclosed in their little nest.
:D :D :D
You should have offered her gas and air Mat ;D
awwww m :) :)
Trixiebelle - She nearly had a severe cesarean with a non surgical spade! ::)
GreenWizard, they were cute - minute miniatures!
Quote from: Carol on March 05, 2006, 21:27:44
Mat, I would ahve done the very same. Aint nature wonderful ??
:D :D :D
aint it just wonderful! It never fails to amaze me ;D
That sounds to have been a very lucky moment Matt! When i used to live in Devon some years ago one of my cats once brought into the house a live "slow worm". I had never seen one before and ran out of the house and got the old man across the road. I thought it was a snake!He could barely stand up for laughing afterwards. :-[