Perhaps with the new Dune movie finally making it to America, the worms in my yard have decided to try and reenact their favorite parts. More likely, this time of year has produced the weather that has brought about one of the more disgusting annual migrations that I have witnessed. Short, thin purplish-red worms have started to crawl all over our entryway door and window in the morning.
I was reminded a few days ago of their first invasion due to Facebook's memory feature. As if on que, I started to notice signs of them on the fence for the dog yard. Today, there were three of them clinging to Starbuck's back when I let her back in this morning. I wrote "clinging," but before I could wipe them off, she shook and the worms went flying to who knows where. Ugh, my skin is creeping just to think about it.
This invasion seems to happen after a period of hard frost followed by a slight warming with cold drizzle. It seems to end after a hard freeze. The snow cannot come soon enough.
I was reminded a few days ago of their first invasion due to Facebook's memory feature. As if on que, I started to notice signs of them on the fence for the dog yard. Today, there were three of them clinging to Starbuck's back when I let her back in this morning. I wrote "clinging," but before I could wipe them off, she shook and the worms went flying to who knows where. Ugh, my skin is creeping just to think about it.
This invasion seems to happen after a period of hard frost followed by a slight warming with cold drizzle. It seems to end after a hard freeze. The snow cannot come soon enough.
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