Revolutionary new food item! :D

[crzy_kevo]

lol kyle i wathced your garter snake feeding vid with the 2 garters fighting for 1 worm that was funny

[Zephyr]

lol kyle i wathced your garter snake feeding vid with the 2 garters fighting for 1 worm that was funny

Yeah, that was a few months ago... Before I knew to hand feed each. (AKA pamper. XD)

[ssssnakeluvr]

hmmmm......she spazzing out sounds different...I found some large worms in Kansas, as big as if not a little bigger than earthworms. one was crawling across the road at night, thought it was a small snake. I went back and went to grab it, it spazzed out real bad....all stiff and flipping around. the red siders seemed to like them also. wonder if it's the same type I found....looks similar...the one I found on the road was a good 10 inches long.

[infernalis]

I was waiting outside a doctors office while Dorothy was seeing the doc, I got bored and started digging in the leaves, the worms I found were nothing like I had ever seen, and match Kyles description exactly.

The dekays were afraid of them, the garters sucked them down quickly though.

The band (1/3 down from worms head) was whiter in color than I have seen, and they thrash like mad when disturbed.

I just never gave it any thought?? Sound like the same worm Kyle?

[Garter_Gertie]

I find this discussion on worms very thought provoking.

MN has no native worms but one; all others are introduced. The glacier(s) wiped them out and the native North American worms haven't made it up here yet. They only travel one mile, I think that's correct, in 100 years. Too, it's not know if they can survive our winters.

So, given that... earthworms weren't native MN garter's first choice in food. They've developed a hankering for them in the last 300 years or so. (It's supposed worms got here in earth that was used for ballast, worms or casings, and also in the soil around the plants the Europeans brought over.)

Isn't that fascinating? I think ittiz!

Invasive earthworms - Invasive species: Minnesota DNR

I just can't believe all the things I'm learning because I decided to get a snake. Wonderful factoids.

[KITKAT]

Here's a pic of a medium sized individual.

They tend to thrash, then stop moving for a moment, then thrash again.

WEIRD! I don't see a clitellum on this worm. Does it have one? If so, what is the distance from the tip of the nose to the clitellum?

[drache]

these look like worms I've got here
I always thought they were just night crawlers
the ones I've got in the back yard wiggle a lot too
I'll have to look at them more closely

[infernalis]

Dorothy reminded me last night, the worms from outside her doctors office DID have a tendency to break themselves when handled a bit.

[Lori P]

1. How does Kyle know they taste like dew worms????
2. How do you know the head from the tail???
3. What's a clitellum??

:-) :-)

[infernalis]

1. How does Kyle know they taste like dew worms????

Yeah, that one has me scratching my head as well, Kyle you eating worms????