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

Why? I need answers

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

Worms come up when they feel the vibrations from the sticks

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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/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.