Thursday, December 1, 2011

Thoughts on the Annelid population

Where do the worms go in the winter?

Do they dig extra deep to avoid frozen dirt, getting closer to Earth's molten core?

Do they tunnel south?

Do they all freeze to death as they lay winterized-eggs that will be the new worm herd of 2012?

Is the one that I captured and put in the soil of my ficus the only surviving worm in Montana?

Do they simply have a high tolerance for low temperatures and continue to thrive all winter long?

Do they enter a cryogenic stasis that allows them to resume worm activities in the spring?

Do they have an elaborate underground worm city where the homeless worms sit around tiny barrel fires warming their mucous exuding clitellum?

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