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elurin · 1 year ago

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schools in the US (at least the ones I attended) present such glowing view of earthworms and people get such a bad impression that they're always good for the environment and it makes me so sad. like. please. why are you teaching that in this state (mn). every earthworm in this state is invasive and some of them are ruining our forest ecosystems but you guys are out here convincing people its okay and even good to release earthworms into the wild. there's basically nothing that can be done about them once they are somewhere so we just need people to stop spreading them. please. why are we teaching the kids earthworms good for environment always. they're gonna pour their parents' extra live bait into the forest floor. their parents think the same thing so they might do it anyway. they are so slow to spread if we don't do it for them.

#earthworms #invasive species #minnesota #anywhere in north america that had glaciers probably has no native earthworms they're all invasive #if you have borreal forest the earthworms are probably super bad for them #i'm minnesota so thats what i'm sure about though. if you're in minnesota please keep your earthworms to yourself esp up north #if you're:#fishing #composting #mulching #gardening #please be careful #jumping worm is the current big problem and lots of people are working on it #if you can and you're in minnesota researchers are trying to track where they are and aren't this fall so you can check your yard #and let them know if you want!!#this post brought to you by:#really trying not to bring my earthworm thing up to people irl again #someone mentioned earthworms and like 4 people looked at me so maybe it is a problem #i am not an earthworm expert

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