Wonder Worms

Description

Wonder Worms are Pheretima Hawayana (genus)  renamed as Amynthas Gracilus also nicknamed "California Golden", "Alabama Jumpers", "Jumping Jacks" and "Twisters". These worms are a member of the night crawler family and are fed the finest quality food for maximum growth, breeding, and heartiness and are raised in the highest grade of bedding.

Statistics

Adult worms are 4-6 inches long and can grow to 8 inches. Their life span can be up to 20 years under desirable conditions. There are approximately 600 adult or 800 standard size worms to the pound. These worms take approximately 20-60 days after birth to start breeding. By raising worms under ideal conditions, they will double their numbers every 30-60days. Wonder Worms can be raised 600 to 1,500 worms per cubic foot. A 4' x 8' wooden box one foot deep can hold 20,000 (25 lbs.) to 30,000 (40 lbs.) worms. They can be raised in most any type of bedding, but peat moss at the right pH has been found to be the best for breeding and growth rate. Worms are the only animal known that are immune to any disease. Scientists do not know the reason for this, but it is nature's way.

Eating Habits

Wonder Worms are one of the most active worm type known. They will even jump out of your hand. They are extremely aggressive in eating of green waste. One advantage of Pheretima Hawayana worms is that they are a deep burrowing worm. The popular red worm or manure worm is a surface worm.  Wonder Worms can consume a small amount of most toxins and oil providing it is evenly blended with a maximum of 1/20th by their weight of their feed. The toxins eaten were somehow absorbed by the worm but when their castings were tested no toxins were detected.  Wonder Worms will eat their own weight in food each day. They will excrete half of their weight each day in what is known as worm castings. Worm castings are the richest and best fertilizer known. Farmers who have used worm castings for fertilizer have doubled their farm production.

Why Invest or Become a Worm Farmer?

Earthworms have provided a good business as sport fishing bait. Worms are becoming more valuable for agriculture and for waste management. Landfills and water supplies wave become more polluted. Many materials going into landfills such as tires, metals, plastics, glass, and oil are being recycled. Green waste is still being dumped into landfills. By recycling all our organic wastes, we not only lessen the burden on the landfills but create a better environment, and in the process, the worms give us back a great organic fertilizer.