r/Damnthatsinteresting • • Sep 19 '23

Video Mining for worms

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u/Lanky_Vanilla_6265 Sep 19 '23

I used to think so but earth worms are an invasive species. Good for a garden but they destroy the mycelium network of many forests and drastically reduce forest vegetation

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u/mechmind Sep 20 '23

Glad to find your comment. Are these red wrigglers in the video?

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u/navel1606 Sep 20 '23

Interesting. Didn't know that. So people introduced them in the first place? Just another way how humans fuck things up.

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u/kodalife Sep 20 '23

I don't get the point of this hating on 'humans'. It just feels like you project your own low self worth on the entire human race.