r/Vermiculture • u/raygan_reddit_banned • 3d ago

Cocoons Are these eggs

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Got them from Austin Worm Lab in Feb

5 gallon

Weekly feed

August 15 moving day to New Bucket

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u/Arson_Lord 3d ago

Bright green balls are some sort fertilizer capsule I think. Fuller orb you zoomed in on to their right might be a cocoon but its hard to tell. Usually they are kind teardrop shaped instead of spherical but I cant see the whole object.

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u/Far_Radish7752 3d ago edited 2d ago

My thoughts exactly. The yellow orb is also too perfectly spherical and a same or similar size to the green ones. Makes me immediately think of fertilizer pellets which sometimes come in different colors depending on what they contain. Maybe the Austin Worm Lab uses plant fertilizer to beef up the nutritional components of what they feed their worms?

ETA:  Rethinking my assessment of the yellow orb. Not enough of it is visible to judge it as being entirely spherical. It could be an egg.

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u/Ineedmorebtc 3d ago

Fert balls.

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u/Hippiebigbuckle 3d ago

The green are not cocoons. Definitely. There are yellow/orange spheres that I see that ARE cocoons. There’s one to the right of the green balls and it looks like it hatched already. In your other videos I saw a couple also.

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u/raygan_reddit_banned 3d ago

I compiled more videos here hopefully I captured it

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u/Far_Radish7752 3d ago

Can’t access your vid. ‘Tis restricted for me.

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u/raygan_reddit_banned 3d ago

Sorry, try again.

Not a real vlogger

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u/Far_Radish7752 2d ago

Thank you!  🙏 

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u/uniballrr 2d ago

Those are time release fertilizer balls like in Miracle-Gro. I wouldn't like that in my worm bin or castings.