During the past year or so (especially the last 6 months) I’ve had the opportunity to spend a lot more time working with European Nightcrawlers (Eisenia hortensis / Dendrobaena veneta), and as you can probably tell from my writings, I’ve really come to respect them a lot more.
It’s funny to think that my frustrating experience with Euros in my VB48 actually helped lead me down the path to my new found appreciation of these worms. I guess you could say it’s one of those “making lemonade out of lemons” situations that actually panned out (as you may recall, I came up with a skirt-tray system down below the VB48 that’s been working very well).
Spending as much time with these worms as I have, I’ve come to realize that some of my previous assumptions (you know what they say about ASSumptions! lol) were a little off target. As such, I thought it would be of value to put together a post based on my current knowledge-of/experience-with Euros.
Here is a run-down of interesting tidbits (my own observations supplemented with information obtained from reliable sources) about Euros:
NOTE: These are certainly not ALL new revelations (I have categorized accordingly) – and others who have worked with this worm will likely have some different experiences/perspectives. As always, please don’t treat my info as “gospel”.