Temperature and moisture affect throughout the life cycle of Redworms.

Without decomposers, the plant debris and organic matter would keep up piling the nutrients trapped by reducing the supply to the other living organisms on mother earth. Redworms with other decomposers are considered the caretakers of an ecosystem.

Red worms categorically placed in detritivores also perform a similar job and contribute significantly to our ecosystem and food production chain. Many organisms living in an ecosystem naturally break down the crumbling material by ingesting them into their bodies to provide some valuable nutrients for other living organisms like plants. Like every living organism, Red worms also need favorable temperature and a conducive environment where they could survive and perform decomposition functions.

Optimum Temperature Range for Red Worms.

As it turned out, ever single farm was actually breeding E fetida and/or its very close relative E. rubellus isn’t used for composting nearly as much as some think.īack in 1988 scientists conducted a very interesting survey of numerous worm farms in Australia, Europe and the U.S., all of them claiming they were raising L. While I certainly won’t claim outright that these people are wrong, there is some evidence to indicate that L. In some cases even scientific names won’t help us out however – such as when the wrong one is being used! You can find many people claiming to be using Lumbricus rubellus (also called “Red Worms”) for composting. fetida is such a common species, there is probably a good chance that many bait stores are indeed carrying this worm (which may also be referred to as Tiger Worm, Brandling Worm, or Red Wiggler, among others), but it’s hard to say for sure without seeing the worms for yourself.

The advantage of scientific names is that there is only one for each organism, and it’s universally used around the world – with the exception of cases where a former name is still in use after a new name as been declared – as is the case with the European Nightcrawler (Eisenia hortensis – formerly Dendrobaena veneta). I’m sure there are a lot of bait shops that carry ‘Red Worms’, but the question IS, how many of those shops have Eisenia fetida? That is a good question since it highlights the limitations of relying solely on ‘common names’. “Are red worms from a bait store the same as the red worms that I would order from gardening catalogs? Thanks,” ~ Sandy

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