Nightcrawlers?

[-MARWOLAETH-]

There's only one Welsh word for worm (mwydyn). So All these English words for worms always confuse me.What is the difference between lob worms, earthworms and night crawlers?

[guidofatherof5]

I think some of the words used are interchangeable by the different parts of the country.
I've grown up calling the large dark worms night crawlers and the small pale, lightly colored worms earthworms.
Lobworm and night crawlers are Lumbricus terrestis.

[-MARWOLAETH-]

when digging for worms in the garden I only find small pale worms with stubbly ends and park red to purple worms that are bigger and have pointier ends.Are the darker pointier ones lob worms and the paler ones earthworms?

[Stefan-A]

small pale worms with stubbly ends

Common field worm, Allolobophora caliginosa, most likely.

Here's a very old video of a garter eating some.

[-MARWOLAETH-]

what happened to your parientalis?

[Stefan-A]

what happened to your parientalis?

Dead. December 25, 2008. Went off feed, stayed off feed for a very long time, I tried to brumate it (her) for a short while to get it to snap out of it, it developed a respiratory infection and died a couple of days after coming out.

The male died a year earlier.

[-MARWOLAETH-]

I'm sorry to hear it.

[Reptilia]

So, see how some people cut up the worms (being too large or whatever else) the worms die presumably, and the snake will still eat them happily? What do you do with the worms to keep them? In the fridge?

(Sorry about your parientalis, Stefan!)

A fellow Scot with Florida blues?! Oh, happy days! Hehe.

[Stefan-A]

Thanks, and it's parietalis.

[Reptilia]

Heh, I was just copying. I'm horrendous with Latin names. Mostly the reason I stay clear of tarantulas!