Sunday, March 13, 2011

What's Left of Chuck's Grapes, 090510

I didn't make it very clear in my last post about Chuck's grapes, but I fed the grape bits for the first time to three of my bins (Adam, Eve and The Offspring) August 24th. I said I'd follow up with what how the worms handled the grapes and now's the time to do that.

When I checked on the worms September 5th, the following is a sampling of what I found.

I was quite surprised to find a little baby grape all bright and shiny green on an old stem.

Digging around further in Adam, this gnarly thing spring up:

There isn't much to see as far as grape skins go expect for that flaccid brown one up there at top-left. The branchy woody stemmy part had a lot going on though! Worms of all ages and sizes were intertwined with the stemmy bits and there were a multitude of young mites (those tiny white nodules) all over it too!

When I checked on The Offspring, I saw a big pile of brownish grape skins with worms intermingled.


The Offspring were going a little slower at the chow but I'm not sure why. They did seem to be enjoying their meal.

You can click on each of the images above for a closer look if'n ya wanna.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

You disgust me.

Worm Wrangler said...

And yet you keep coming back. "King," we'll just keep this our secret. ;)


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