Worms Dew-Bathing
Last Tuesday before heading out to work I noticed many white worms all over the lid of the refuse container (i.e. trash bin). There was plenty of dew on the car and the trash bin lid was also pretty wet, however the photos don’t clearly show the amount of dew present on the lid.
These little worms were knee deep in dew.
Do you see the pairs? why are they next to each other like that?
These aren’t the usual kind of worms I”m used to seeing, will these turn to butterflies or some other flying insect?
If you click on a photo to enlarge it you will notice the water surrounding the worms.
Later on that day, 1/3rd the worms were “dead by drying” in the sun light, the rest were gone, somewhere. Maybe birds ate them, maybe they went back into the trash bin to eat trash, I donno.
Well, I think they looked pretty and cute, a bit unusual for a garden worm.. I thought they looked interesting / cool. You might agree.
If you thought these worms were anything but gross, I hope this next piece of info doesn’t change your mind: These are maggots.
They must have come out of the trash bin some how, they are the larva of flies (house flies, blow-flies, and cheese flies). In this case I believe these are from blow-flies.
I think they came out to drink the dew water but I might be mistaken, I aint a maggot expert.
In a few weeks all these insects will die, it is Fall!
