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red wiggler

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  • noun southern US An earthworm, especially when used as bait for fishing.

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  • MaryW commented on the word red wiggler

    Most earthworms are not native to the United States; they came from Europe as settlers brought in plants and horticultural soils from their native homelands.

    Some of the most familiar invaders, such as "night crawlers" and "red wigglers," are clearly enhancing soil fertility and even helping stem climate change. . . . Carbon is also quickly stripped from the decaying plant matter by worms and stored in the soil. This may be the worm's greatest gift. Increasing the capacity of our soils to sequester carbon is a significant step that helps counter the carbon we release into the atmosphere.

    John M. Marzluff, Welcome to Subirdia: Sharing Our Neighborhoods with Wrens, Robins, Woodpeckers, and Other Wildlife (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 2014), p. 167

    February 14, 2016