Coprophagia and Einsenia fetida
barbararose21101
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FYI:
All the dot edu type guides to Vermicomposting that I can find, from Cornell to WSU, include the caution about consequence of minimal to no maintenance.
The only reference to coprophagia in Mary's bibliography
doesn't look applicable to worming indoors with E. fetida,
in my opinion. I am persevering in the question.
I looked for a post where someone, I thought it was Pete, hurt his back and neglected a bin for 6 months. I gave up reading old posts.
I wonder how many live worms were there, what species, and where ? On the top ?
From what I've read so far, 6 months is an outside limit.
We could research this ourselves:
Pete has worms to spare.
We'd need him to be sure they were E. fetida.
How would you design the experiment ?
I would use the blue tubs so as to make it as applicable to common practice as possible.
Size of bin and number of worms is relevant.
OR; we could put new worms in the purest castings we can find and see how long they survive.
This post was edited by barbararose21101 on Tue, Jan 27, 15 at 12:37
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