Thread: Pick Your Own Red Wigglers

do you put a few in there to get em started or will the worms come up from the ground through the holes.

I put some in there to get them started....I put about 200 in that big drink box....in a few months time I had a bunch. That was a couple of years ago...I have not bought a worm since.

Can you mix varieties of worms in your worm box? Like reds, maggots, nitecrawlers and wax worms? Or, are the needs of each different enough that this won't work?

Originally Posted by MikeA57

Can you mix varieties of worms in your worm box? Like reds, maggots, nitecrawlers and wax worms?

No, they're very different. Maggots and waxies, for example, don't live in dirt. And maggots give off ammonia which will kill other worms.

That's what I was thinking, just wasn't sure...

Originally Posted by fredo

I thought maggots and wax worms were the same thing.

See page 1.

I remember when I was about 10 or so and wanted to start my own 'worm bed'. I just had a stryofoam shiner bucket, and put in every worm I could dig up. I used to feed them corn meal all the time and water them a little here and there. Seemed to work fine as it lasted me a good long time...until I left it sitting beside the gas can once and I guess the fumes chased them all out and killed them. It was completely dead after that. Had a good run with it though. I'd let my son make one, but it'd drive my wife away from our house.....hmmmm may have to keep that in mind!! LOL.....

Originally Posted by 1perchjerker

Ship, do you put hardware cloth (to keep the birds out) over the Coffee grounds for the solider fly larvae?
1perchjerker

Have not done that...seems like a great idea though.

Originally Posted by Dirthead

The Maggots looks alot of like Wax Worms, So are they maggots or wax worm or the same thing

The picture was wax worms. I use them more than maggots.

Wax worm is a bee moth larvae. Maggot is the larvae of the house fly.

Thanks Ship

Fatman