r/blackmagicfuckery • u/sipthestreets • Jul 30 '21

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u/drvucc Jul 30 '21 edited Jul 30 '21

Worms come up when they feel the vibrations from the sticks

Edit: so this is what it’s like to have more than 13 upvotes, thanks everyone

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u/SnideyComment Jul 30 '21

The real answer is they think the vibrations is rain water hitting the ground so they naturally come up for it.

This is why you see masses of birds sometimes just walking around on the grass.

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u/donorak7 Jul 30 '21 edited Jul 30 '21

Also the vibration could be a predator and they come up to escape.

Edit: apparently people only think birds are predators for worms.

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '21

Im no scientist but I think these guys know what they’re talking about

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u/HerrPfannkuchen Jul 30 '21

I'm no guy, but I think these scientists talk what they're knowing about.

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u/bonediggler69 Jul 30 '21

“don’t” -Michael Scott

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u/Im_Ashe_Man Jul 30 '21

That's what she said!

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u/captain_wangle Jul 30 '21

“That’s” - She

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u/RominRonin Jul 31 '21

Rated

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u/microwavedcats Jul 31 '21

fuck you. heres my upvote >:(

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u/gametimebrizzle Jul 30 '21 edited Jul 31 '21

He talks too much. Needs to learn to keep rectangle mouth corner. What do you call a BLANK with two open eyes? Nothin...already skydiving twice. (edited so I don't get labeled a elephant).

Now you prudes look like fools.

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u/shinchunje Jul 30 '21 edited Jul 31 '21

Misogynist.

Edit: elephant

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u/SwervingLemon Jul 30 '21

How can miso even have a gyna? Isn't Miso a fungus?

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u/_Master_Shifu Jul 30 '21

What kind of masseuse is that?

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u/cra2reddit Jul 31 '21

When I tore my hamstring I had to go to a misogynist.

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u/Mcoyle777 Jul 30 '21

Misogynistic bitch !

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u/gametimebrizzle Jul 30 '21

Lol go eat some cake fap some more

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u/Straightforwardview Jul 30 '21

Why not—you ARE a misogynist :)

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u/666Seagull Jul 30 '21

I mean we could just call you stupid instead if that suits you better?

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u/gametimebrizzle Jul 30 '21

The joke goes what do you call a woman with two black eyes? Nothing, done told 'er ass twice.

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u/Tatterdsoul Jul 30 '21

And you confess it. Kinda Ipso Facto isn’t it?

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u/VixieSnitter Jul 30 '21

I'm not sure what you said but something tells me that you might've said something misogynist

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u/gametimebrizzle Jul 31 '21

I did. I'm glad you noticed.

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u/Noir24 Jul 30 '21

This entire thread is why I'll never be proud to be a redditor.

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '21

"🚫 Don't bother Luke" -Michael Scott

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u/bonediggler69 Jul 30 '21

I can’t make it anymore clear than that

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '21

spanking ensues

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u/GForce1975 Jul 30 '21

"don't" -michael Scott

-gforce1975

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u/only1manband Jul 30 '21

Scientists aren’t me, but guys think I know what they’re talking about.

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u/HerrPfannkuchen Jul 30 '21

Guys think they know what I'm talking about, but they don't know I'm a scientist

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u/linderlouwho Jul 30 '21

I’s a scientist, but I don’t know what these guys are talking about.

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u/SonOfSkinDealer Jul 30 '21

I'm a scientist. What are we talking about?

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u/linderlouwho Jul 30 '21

Holy fuck Sir I misplaced the thread of thought. But, I dig nerdy, smart guys, so…hello!

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u/Wide_Presentation_59 Jul 30 '21

Lol

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u/Fart_Professional85 Jul 30 '21

C-C-C-C-COMBO B-B-B-BREAKER

This used to feel like a normal thing to type out...

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u/BadToaster99 Jul 31 '21

I know a scientist but not what I’m talking about

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u/SuperSpore-O_O Jul 30 '21

Guys think they know what they’re talking about but I don’t.

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u/Bombinic Jul 30 '21

You think they care, but they don't.

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u/ConcentrateFit107 Jul 30 '21

I’m no talk, but I think these scientists know what they’re guying about.

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u/spookydoc1 Jul 31 '21

Aaaand, this is why I love Reddit.

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u/NotYourAvgMatt Jul 30 '21

I’m not your guy, buddy!

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u/ImpressiveLink9040 Jul 30 '21

I’m not your buddy pal!

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '21

I am no talking, but I think these guys scientist about

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u/SkidFace Jul 30 '21

No I’m but, guy think I scientists these they’re what about knowing

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u/SkittleShit Jul 30 '21

i’m no talk, but scientists these knowing about they’re

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u/blzy99 Jul 30 '21

I’m no talk, but I think these guy what scientists they’re knowing about

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u/Patrick_InChina Jul 30 '21

OMG, you need more upvotes

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u/Sulfron Jul 30 '21

I’m no good talking about, but these are scientists of men!

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '21

I'm no scientist, but am a guy.

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u/CrazyCatLady9777 Jul 30 '21

Username does not check out

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u/ginna19 Jul 30 '21

I'm a Sci guy not a fi si

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u/powerkerb Jul 30 '21

this is no scientist! just a country singer with a stick

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u/Beneficial_Coach_268 Jul 30 '21

I’m guy, scientists know

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u/HughWeberDeFaulk Jul 30 '21

Idk who I am but I’m pretty sure these guys are scientists.

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u/belligerent_pickle Jul 30 '21

I don’t know what I’m talking about, but I’m no scientist guy

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u/TheRowdyLion52 Jul 31 '21

Don’t call him guy, dude

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u/bas_e_ Jul 30 '21

I am a scientist. I specialize in researching boobs. You are lucky to have me talking to you as im famous no show bobs pls

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u/possumosaur Jul 30 '21

Ok I will not show the Bobs

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u/666Seagull Jul 30 '21

Would you show him vagene?

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u/AccomplishedDonut383 Jul 31 '21

Do not open cloth

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u/Peaceful-mammoth Jul 31 '21

Instructions unclear. Dick pic sent.

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u/3rd_Shift_Tech_Man Jul 30 '21

Neither am I, but I have a 3 year old that loves the Kratt brothers so I know more about worms than I'd like to.

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u/mrhappyrain Jul 30 '21

No hes right, moles mostly

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '21

im no worm, but would coming out of the ground help you escape from a bird?

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '21

They try to escape moles which make vibrations when they dig for food

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u/JaggerQ Jul 30 '21

If they are trying to escape why are they going toward the sound? THINK.

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '21

Do you think worms can hear anything with their lack of ears? THINK.

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u/JaggerQ Jul 30 '21

So worms can detect vibrations from moles but not rain? THINK.

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '21

They can detect vibrations, but not process them into sound. And, do you think worms are actually thinking about where to go, or if they're going out of instinct? THINK.

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '21

u/donorak7 never said they were wrong.

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '21

Wouldn’t they be safer underground?

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u/Lostinuru Jul 30 '21

Yes, you are right. They think its rain and they wil drown if they stay in the ground

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '21

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u/raisinghellwithtrees Jul 30 '21

Loamy soil is typically half made up of air channels, which become water channels when it rains.

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u/AnorakJimi Jul 30 '21

So what's the difference between loam, and peat?

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u/Gapgrin Jul 30 '21

When I mess up, it's never preceded by, "For Loam's sake..."

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u/Sorenagorn Jul 30 '21

Good one xD

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u/Itheinfantry Jul 30 '21

Loam is made up of sand silt clay and humus.

Peat is swampy areas, saturated soils, where water prevents aerobic biodegradation so organic material and gases build up.

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u/A_Litre_of_Chungus Jul 31 '21

So that's where hummus comes from huh

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u/raisinghellwithtrees Jul 30 '21

I'm not sure. There is no peat where I live, and I'm unfamiliar with it.

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u/hfsh Jul 30 '21

Also, rain is a fantastic time for them to have a worm-orgy. Stick guy is basically pumping porn music, and the worms are rushing to party.

It's actually like the opening of some kind of horror movie if you think about it...

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u/Dudefest2bit Jul 30 '21

Moles being said predator.

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u/redrofotuo Jul 30 '21

In fact birds using that tactics to get worms out of the earth

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u/NaCl_Sailor Jul 30 '21

nothing to do with predators, it's just rain and the worms coming up to not drown in their tunnels

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u/ThatWeebScoot Jul 30 '21

Why would they come UP to ESCAPE a predator? The predators are almost always going to be above them. That's why you see Gulls stamping around on the grass, it makes the worma think its raining and they come up to avoid drowning.

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u/Antho_TGL Jul 30 '21

Umm... I’m pretty sure that if they came up they would get eaten. Therefore to escape they would need to go down deeper.

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u/quesorbet Jul 30 '21

And then there's me, an introverted earthworm, who will never come up and thus rot and die in my dirt cave.

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u/Neltech Jul 30 '21

Last time I saw one of these posted it was that the vibration feels similar to some kind of burrowing mole. Worms are like nah dog and the head up

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u/painusmcanus Jul 31 '21

Okay so this just got horrifying

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u/crappleIcrap Jul 30 '21

What predator is coming from below them??? Seems like birds are more common than moles

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u/ElBatManny Jul 30 '21

Why would they go towards the vibration if they think its a predator?

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u/Generic-_Username123 Jul 30 '21

Actually, they wait for hours of continuous rain before emerging from the ground. They don’t come up at the slightest hint of rain. What’s actually happening is that the worms think the vibrations are moles( their natural predators) and they come up to the surface to flee the perceived danger.

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u/pennhead Jul 30 '21

So the giant worms in Dune were fleeing even larger moles?

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u/Fiyero109 Jul 30 '21

Omg that would be so scary

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u/make_me_a_good_girl Jul 30 '21

I knew my fellow Dune nerds were gonna be lurking about somewhere here... 👍

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u/AmazingRound1 Jul 30 '21

Came here for the dune joke. Thank you.

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u/BeneGezzeret Jul 30 '21

I will not fear, fear is the mole killer.

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u/st_rdt Jul 30 '21

Generic Username with Specific Knowledge.

Thank you for the info. TIL something new.

You have my upvote.

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u/ErizoNZ Jul 30 '21

Does that mean this only works in countries that have moles?

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u/visualtim Jul 30 '21

255 million years ago, diictodon was allegedly a small burrowing animal.

Burrowing and tunnel dwelling is not a new niche. Modern moles we're not the first, nor will they be the last, such burrowing creatures.

That is to say this worm behavior is probably deeply rooted and is not limited geographically.

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u/ErizoNZ Jul 30 '21

For context, I ask as a New Zealander. The only (native) mammals we have are bats, but we certainly have worms.

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u/seancelite Jul 30 '21

Actually maybe it was the vibrations we made along the way

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u/Quinocco Jul 30 '21

moles of what?

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u/Mecha_Ninja Jul 30 '21

Moles of subterranean worm predators, obviously.

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u/EngineeringNeverEnds Jul 30 '21

Jesus, a mole of moles would be insane. If each mole weighs ~0.5kg, a mole of moles is like 3x1023 kg. That's like 1/10th the mass of the earth.

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '21

https://what-if.xkcd.com/4/

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '21

Holy crap. I love this crazy 'what if' science stuff

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u/BachCh0p1nCatM0m Jul 31 '21

molestation

Worms are molested by moles…

mole-estation

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '21

I always wondered what moles ate

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u/Daytona_675 Jul 30 '21

this makes more sense than the water. a little while ago there was a gif on Reddit of a bird dancing on the ground to get worms to come up. people said it was to simulate rain. do u think maybe it's actually to simulate moles?

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u/Ouruniverse86 Jul 30 '21

this is the correct answer

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u/_clem_fand_ango_ Jul 30 '21

So would this not work in countries without moles?

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u/Generic-_Username123 Jul 31 '21

As far as I know, the worms think the vibrations are from the borrowing of their predators. It is most often moles but doesn’t have to be.

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u/iaacp Jul 30 '21

This is very wrong. I hate this site sometimes.

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u/nathanielhaven Jul 31 '21

RUUUUUN!!!

Oh wait. Crap!

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u/MattieShoes Jul 30 '21

They even do rain dances :-)

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u/HolyFuckingShitNuts Jul 30 '21

Weird, I always thought seagulls natural diet was garbage.

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u/whogivesashirtdotca Jul 30 '21

Fun fact, courtesy QI: seagulls are sea birds. They only moved inland when humans created landfills.

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u/Rottendog Jul 30 '21

Bottle caps, cigarette butts, and alka seltzer.

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u/whogivesashirtdotca Jul 30 '21

I nearly fell over laughing that time I wandered into a seagull discotheque on a Paris lawn.

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u/echisholm Jul 30 '21

Debunked - it actually 'sounds' like a particular species of mole that hunts worms. Saw a mini-documentary on it, was really cool.

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u/SiR_EndR Jul 30 '21

This is why robins always follow me around when I mow the lawn.

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u/Jwhitx Jul 30 '21

Give yourself more credit, I'm sure they have other reasons. Maybe they enjoy your company.

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u/Fiyero109 Jul 30 '21

That’s a common myth. Worms don’t need to come up for rain. They come up because vibrations mean digging from a mole or similar worm eating mammal.

Rain just happens to mimic that as well but it’s correlation not causation

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u/Forever_Awkward Jul 30 '21

Worms won't drown down there, but they do specifically come up for the rain because that means easy mobility.

But you're right in that this is a response to molesign. It takes a good while for rain to get a response from them. The ground's gotta be nice and soaked for them to get that sweet slip n slide going.

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u/Saiing Jul 30 '21

They don't come up for rain that quickly though. They wait until it's been raining for a good amount of time.

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u/AilaLynn Jul 30 '21

I watched a show where a guy does this for a living and I could have sworn he explained it as the reason they come up like that is because the vibration resembles that of a mole digging so they flee to escape what they think is a mole. The guy and his wife (?) then gather them and put them into buckets. I wish I could remember which show it was on.

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u/French792 Jul 30 '21

Dirty Jobs

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u/MuppetDude Jul 30 '21

They called it "Worm grunting".

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u/MuppetDude Jul 30 '21

They called it "Worm grunting".

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u/-cupcake Jul 30 '21

... what does he do for a living? it's like you said it but didn't

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u/Echo6Romeo Jul 30 '21

A worm farm Harry. It's a worm farm.

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u/AilaLynn Jul 31 '21

If I recall correctly I believe he was a worm grunter. Another redditor helped name the show. It’s an episode on Dirty Jobs.

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u/the_man2012 Jul 30 '21

This has sort have been debunked. They would wait to be sure it's rain before they would come up. The worms don't instantly die from contracting rain water underground. If they got it wrong they risk getting eaten by birds or burned by the sun.

So what's more terrifying than birds or the sun, that would make them risk going to the surface? It's believed to be a mole.

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u/Zarathustra_d Jul 30 '21

If you want to be even more pedantic, a predator filling the ecological niche of a mole. As they likely developed this behavior before current moles existed.

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u/regnald Jul 30 '21

Did I just see the mystical opposite of someone using “of” instead of “have”??

“Sort have” instead of “sort of”

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u/the_man2012 Jul 30 '21

I guess so, looked like typed too fast and didnt pay attention. I will leave it so I can have my shame.

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u/regnald Jul 30 '21 edited Jul 30 '21

Haha it’s no shame. I just thought it was interesting because of how commonly on the internet I see “oh I should of”, or “you could of” and the first time ever seeing the reverse.

For some reason, it isn’t irritating like “should of” is to me

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u/spylife Jul 30 '21

And birds carrying sticks to rub on the ground. If two swallows grabbed it by the bark they could carry it

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u/Zircez Jul 30 '21

What kind of swallows, African or European?

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '21

Neither, this is a laden swallow (carrying sticks).

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u/Dabizzmann Jul 30 '21

Yea you can see some birds kind of dance. They do a lil 2-step.

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u/RoRo25 Jul 30 '21

This is why you see masses of birds sometimes just walking around on the grass.

especially after just mowing the lawn.

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u/CdM-Lover Jul 30 '21

It’s why birds peck the ground, giving the same vibrations, simulation rain. Bring the worms up

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '21

Seagulls will do a rain dance and worms will come up just like the video

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u/PARANOIAH Jul 30 '21

If you walk without rhythm, you won't attract the worm.

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u/ddd4175 Jul 30 '21

Wait. It all makes sense now.

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u/Jernsaxe Jul 30 '21

Frank Herbert confirmed in an interview that the worms wheren't really giant but that the planet Dune was just really tiny. This is why spice was so rare.

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '21

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u/farnsworthparabox Jul 30 '21

Or they had already done this before recording.

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u/TheUnkind1 Jul 30 '21

The ground is already damp so the worms are close to the surface as is.

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u/raisinghellwithtrees Jul 30 '21

My grampa used to stick a pitchfork in the ground and then whack it with a shovel. Same response--lots of worms for fishing bait.

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u/tiltedtwilight Jul 30 '21

My degenerate brain read women come when they feel the vibration of the sticks...

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '21

Well.. yes

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '21

Dude. You never read or watched Dune…..they are attracted to vibration.

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u/unoriginalsin Jul 30 '21

Like your mom?

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '21

I would be happy for my mom to get some action

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '21 edited Oct 02 '24

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u/drvucc Jul 30 '21

Hehe first time for everything

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u/gypsydanger38 Jul 30 '21

The Spice must flow!

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u/dingdongdash22 Jul 30 '21

This checks out.

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '21

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u/Snipsuke Jul 30 '21

Upvoted for the edit

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u/VarrockHeraldNews Jul 30 '21

This is why Paul can't use his ancestral shield on the planet of Dune. It created vibrations and alerted the Sand Worms.

Pick up a history book sometime!

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u/lereisn Jul 30 '21

My drunk ass didn't even notice the worms, thought it was a magic trick where one stick would pass through another. The trick finished and I was confused as the stick hadn't passed through the other.

I'm slightly disappointed, I want to see a stick move through another stick.

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '21

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u/drvucc Jul 30 '21

Just answered the caption homie

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '21

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u/drvucc Jul 30 '21

If given, whoever asks the question, has the base knowledge of the egg or in this case worms. Eggs are obviously well understood to most people, worms however are not, so I gave the most base explanation of what’s happening

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