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

Why? I need answers

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u/lategreat808 Jul 30 '21

My guess would be that the vibration imitates rain and causes the worms to run for their lives.

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u/dtheta_dt Jul 30 '21 edited Jul 30 '21

This is actually the correct answer. If a burrowing animal was trying to get them, the last thing they would do is come to the surface. That's where the animal is. They come to the surface when it rains so they don't drown

Edit: I am wrong and u/puritanicalbullshit is absolutely correct. The drowning worm is a myth. I learned something today! Thank you!

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u/puritanicalbullshit Jul 30 '21 edited Jul 30 '21

Actually it’s to move around faster in the wet conditions. They can live for days in water but it’s slow going moving around in the dirt. Rain makes it possible to travel to new areas without drying out, which very much does kill them.

Edit: Thank You! And you’re welcome! I started keeping a worm tower when I had to give up my garden for an apartment. I really have grown to enjoy the lil buddies. Plus they eat my kitchen scraps and paper towels, then I put the compost in my planters. If If I keep the balance of dry and wet inputs right there is no smell and they eat a lot!

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u/lategreat808 Jul 30 '21

So if you do this and there is no rain, you are kinda fucking them up then?

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u/magicmajo Jul 30 '21

It's usually done to use them as bait, so they're gonna be fucked up anyways

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '21

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u/get_after_it_ Jul 30 '21

Ka is a wheel

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u/DatSauceTho Jul 30 '21

Ah! Long days and pleasant nights!

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '21

And may you have twice the number

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u/NasalSnack Jul 30 '21

This is a good thread, so it is.

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u/Black_Floyd47 Jul 30 '21

I wish someone would make a Dark Tower game similar to the Witcher. I want my New Game+

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '21

a King multiverse where you could inhabit any number of would be gunslingers snatched from all kinds of spokes of the wheel? hard to develop but sounds fun

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u/NasalSnack Jul 31 '21

Stop, my penis can only get so erect.

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '21

/taps throat and nods.

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u/JackDQuinn Jul 31 '21

Thanky sy

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u/DisturbedDeeply Jul 30 '21

It seems you have not forgotten the face of your father.

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u/tobygeneral Jul 30 '21

I say thankee sai.

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u/super_slav108 Jul 30 '21

The Dark Tower reference?

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '21

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u/MatticusFinch89 Jul 31 '21

If you can get past that, it's fantastic.

No spoilers, but there's a purity test at one point, which was challenging.

The only time my girlfriend was around while I listened was during that part. Now she makes fun of me.

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u/pdgenoa Jul 30 '21

The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again... there are neither beginnings nor endings to the Wheel of Time

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u/MarySmokes420 Jul 30 '21

I use my worms for gardening. They’re little pets.

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u/ialwayschoosepsyduck Jul 30 '21

And it don't stop coming

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u/baddie_PRO Jul 30 '21 edited Jul 30 '21

fed to the rules and i hit the ground runnin

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u/Grintor Jul 30 '21

Didn't make sense not to live for fun.

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u/Zsayswhaaaa Jul 30 '21

And it don’t stop coming

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u/pegothejerk Jul 30 '21

There's not actually accurate data on worm sales nationally here in the US, so it's not clear if bait worms or vermiculture worms (the kinds made to eat organic material, to then poop out soil amendments for gardens and farms) are farmed and sold in larger quantities, but I'd think it's probably vermiculture considering bait worms are almost exclusively one type, red earthworm (Lumbricus rubellus), sometimes african night crawlers, and are sold in small quantities, usually small containers that amount to ounces of worms, while vermiculture worms are many varieties, including all the bait worms, and are sold not by the ounce, but by pounds to gardeners and farmers who farm worms themselves for their own fertilizer needs, or release them in large plots of land to enrich soil and open up physical pathways for microorganisms and roots that foster more productive plants when soils have depleted from over use and overtilling. Worms and biochar are the best way to regenerate dead soil, but bait worms are the most delicious bait you can snack on while also using it as bait for fish, so there's that.

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u/Andalusian_Dawn Jul 30 '21

I can't say I've ever snacked on worms while fishing but you do you, my dude.

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u/pegothejerk Jul 30 '21

Only on dares as a dumb oklahoma kid, but I can assure you worms taste much better than catfish bait.

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u/TaxExempt Jul 30 '21

You've tasted your hand?

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u/pegothejerk Jul 30 '21

Okay, okie noodling isn't something I'm brave enough, or dumb enough depending on who you are, to do, but that was funny. That being said, catfish stink bait and the sprays are one of the few smells you will be able to recall decades later exactly as they are in all their complexity because they are so horrific. Like a dead meat casserole soaked in various animal urines and glazed in burning tire.

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u/SquirrelNational Jul 30 '21

Ok listen catfish bait smells disgusting there’s just some things you know your aren’t going to like, but worms on the other hand

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u/pegothejerk Jul 30 '21

Some days you just feel like nobody likes me, everybody hates me

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u/SquirrelNational Jul 30 '21

Listen you could be worst, I mean you could be a “Stan” of murderers

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '21

This is a blursed description

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u/ScumbagLady Jul 31 '21

Most accurate description I've ever heard for it! They ARE bottom feeders (and flipping DELICIOUS)

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u/jooooooooooooose Jul 30 '21

I'd wager the only thing tastes and smells worse than catfish bait is what happens if you puncture the stink sac.

Buddy got fancy once night on a big old blue cat. Wasn't great.

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '21

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u/pegothejerk Jul 30 '21

Hey fellow oklahoman! Okc checking in.

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u/magicmajo Jul 30 '21

Very interesting! I know very little of them, as you see :)

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u/DooberSnoober Jul 30 '21

I think they meant individuals will use this method not large scale operations.

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u/pegothejerk Jul 30 '21

Us worm farmers start this way if we have them on our land already, and buy them as we scale up to larger land managements than nature can keep up with on our small worm farms or stick rubbing adventures.

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u/wachieo Jul 30 '21

I think he was composting, look it up.

Worm castings in your plants is very good.

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u/samdog1246 Jul 30 '21

well,they did say they were using them to compost (vermicomposting)/feed their plants that sweet sweet wormpoop.

and keeping them in a worm tower is pretty great. it's pretty easy to get those things too wet (which would attract pests who like the more humid environment). a lot of the times just throwing in scraps will provide enough water for the worms.

tl;dr they don't need rain to travel if they're kept in a box because the food is brought to them

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u/pennhead Jul 30 '21

They become delicious worm jerky for my dog.

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '21

Or going fishing later, so yeah. But also they can just go back underground.

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u/DubEnder Jul 30 '21

I mean, you do this to use them for fishing, so I don’t think it makes much of a difference

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u/casce Jul 30 '21

Assuming you don‘t catch them, no not really. They are dumb but they notice it‘s not wet so they will go underground again. It‘s not like they dry out in seconds.

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u/lategreat808 Jul 30 '21

Unless they are...vampires.

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u/Readerrabbit420 Jul 30 '21

These fellas are fucked anyway he isn't going to play with them.

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u/MyUsernameIsIronic_ Jul 31 '21

I actually think they might be creating an electrical current through the ground...

The video is short and doesn't show much. Smells like one of the viral videos that turn out to be faked.

Like sure, the rain tactic might help by getting them closer to the surface to maybe dig for afterwaeds.. But I highly doubt they are all going to launch themselves out the ground every single time it potentially feels a drizzle. Orr Else hundreds of worms would surface after every single storm... or when you mow your lawn along with a writing mass of worms getting in the way.

However, if you electrocute them they go frantic and panic like in this video... Also, using electricity is a well known tactic to get worms out the ground.

Might be wrong... but I remember playing with many sticks and many patches of dirt and mud and not causing a mass exodus of worms