Giant worms discovered on remote UK island

[petros]

I also put roe on a hook and catch fish, and sometimes eat before cooking. Usually with wasabi and Japanese soy sauce, right on the tailgate of my truck.

Do you roast the pink garlic marshmallows too?

 

[EagleSmack]

Our Opie (BIG barn cat) is well fed on birds, mice and snakes. Maybe I'll snap a pic of him and become the next big thing in the UK.

If you say it was taken in England it will be a top story there.

 

[Blackleaf]

All I need to do is stick a shovel in the ground and turn the earth and I'll find these.

And think you'll find that, as the name implies, the common earthworm is found all over the UK.

The earthworm in North America, like a third of that continent's worms, was introduced there by incomers, mainly by European settlers, in the 18th Century. So this creature is a very recent arrival on your shores.

 

[CDNBear]

Do you roast the pink garlic marshmallows too?

lol, no. I've tried marshmallows. Not a big fan. I prefer real skeen and loose roe. My youngest ties roe flies for artificial only bodies of water.

 

[EagleSmack]

And think you'll find that, as the name implies, the common earthworm is found all over the UK.

The North American earthworm, like a third of that continent's worms, was introduced there by incomers, mainly by European settlers, in the 18th Century.

A Brit found a worm... congratulations.

 

[Blackleaf]

A Brit found a worm... congratulations.

A giant earthworm.

 

[petros]

lol, no. I've tried marshmallows. Not a big fan. I prefer real skeen and loose roe. My youngest ties roe flies for artificial only bodies of water.

For trout I use cheezies.

A giant earthworm.

Yes, an earthworm which are found all over....wait....you guessed it, earth.

 

[EagleSmack]

A giant earthworm.

A worm... again, congratulations.


If you ever come to the states and sit on the grass long enough they'll come popping up all around you. You'll be a national hero when you go back to your rainy island.

 

[Blackleaf]

Yes, an earthworm which are found all over....wait....you guessed it, earth.

Lumbricus terrestris is the largest species of earthworm throughout Europe, and the giant ones just discovered on Rum are the largest Lumbricus terrestris ever found in the UK.

Lumbricus terrestris in North America (or nightcrawlers and dew worms as you rather mysteriously call them) were introduced there by European settlers in the 18th century.

 

[CDNBear]

If you ever come to the states and sit on the grass long enough they'll come popping up all around you. You'll be a national hero when you go back to your rainy island.

Made me lol for real!

 

[darkbeaver]

Will the Royal Worm College make an annoucement about this amazing discovery?

 

[petros]

 

[MHz]

All I need to do is stick a shovel in the ground and turn the earth and I'll find these.

Go ahead, do it right now and post the pic.

Will the Royal Worm College make an annoucement about this amazing discovery?

How many to dispose of a body as being an ash isn't all that appealing as I spent some time in isolation due to a gas explosion?

 

[DaSleeper]

Our Opie (BIG barn cat) is well fed on birds, mice and snakes. Maybe I'll snap a pic of him and become the next big thing in the UK.

That brought back memories back on the farm when I was young and our cat was scratching at the door to come in and my sister freaked out when he came in with one of them small manure pile red colored garter snakes his mouth firmly clamped behind the snake's head ...
Can't recall what happened afterwards......funny how something brings back a long lost memory......

 

[Curious Cdn]

Rum worms. Those are a lot like Tequila worms.

 

[Blackleaf]

The man whom his mate, Ricky Gervais, has called "the funniest man alive in Britain today":