Amazing and easy way of catching worms

[OldTimer]

Here’s my 1st shot trying this - using mustard.

¼ cup of dry mustard powder to 1 gallon of tap water.

Bought the yellow mustard powder in the bulk section of Fortino’s for 70 cents.

Went to a forested lot (10:30 am) picked a likely looking section right on the lightly used trail and poured half of the mix over a 2 foot square area.

In less than 1 minute several small worms were on the surface…….. a minute later a much larger nightcrawler literally popped into view writhing……… after 5 minutes I had 5 worms. So I dumped the rest of the solution…. and 2 more smaller ones came up in a few minutes. After 15 minutes I packed up and left.

A shot of the solution just poured:

   

A shot of a worm on the surface (it’s dead centre of the pic):

   

My catch half way thru the experiment:

   

So it does work – not a fantastic amount of worms caught for 70 cents and the effort involved– but I think I may try this again in an area of soil/grass that is not on a pathway.

Other conclusions – the second application was really a waste. It may be more efficient to double or triple the size of the area soaked – and do it in one shot. Worms came up in areas that were grassed, none came up in bare soil areas.

Took the worms home, washed them off, put them in bedding – we’ll see if they survive till tomorrow.

Cheers,

OldTimer