Are these worm castings?

QuestionsHow to growSoilLawnsAre these worm castings?
Maeve Daly asked 12 years ago

I’ve been seeing these strange little mud piles everywhere recently, and I’m wondering if they are earthworm castings? They seem to appear where the ground is particularly wet or muddy. They don’t seem to be anything like any castings images I can find on the internet. Do you know what they are?!

1 Answers

Gerry Daly Staff answered 6 years ago
These are most definitely worm castings, perfeclty normal on a lawn. If they cause a problem with mowing, which they shooul dnot, simply brush them away on a dry day and they will disintegrate.

Earthworms search for food on the surface at night and draw it down into borrows and later excrete soil as castings.

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