Attach of the worms

[daddycreswell]

Anyway to stop this? Every time we get a decent amount of rain over night I walk into the garage the next morning to find this. Drives me crazy....

 

[jimgood]

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. When it gives you worms, go fishing.

 

[jkwilson]

You have water coming in too. What kind of shape is the seal at the bottom of the door in?

 

[dlcwent]

Collect them and sell them. Around here they're going for about $2.50 a dozen.

 

[Cyberbear]

The water makes the worms come out since they need to breathe air. Fix the drainage problem and no more worms.

 

[cowboy73]

Time to go fishing!

 

[daddycreswell]

The water makes the worms come out since they need to breathe air. Fix the drainage problem and no more worms.

No standing water anywhere, just a bunch of worms. We had 2 inches of rain overnight.

 

[rlitman]

Perhaps no standing water IN your garage, but there has to be at the very least, a film of water (perhaps just caused by the rain, or gutter runoff) on the apron in front of it.

If it's just water directly from the rain, the most I can advise is to improve the seal under your door (perhaps add one of those glue-down strips).
If your gutters are adding water to your apron while it rains (even if there is no standing water, but they're just creating a temporary film of water), then re-routing the runoff might be in order.

We used to get a lot (hundreds) of millipedes in the office stairwell overnight (and some in the lobby that didn't make it that far), and had no clue why.
One day I bent down to pick something up in the lobby, and it hit me. The stairwell has a light on all the time, and no sweep under the door. You couldn't see the light when standing, but from the ground level you couldn't miss the light under the door. They must have been heading towards it. We added a sweep to block the light, and the millipedes stopped entering the building.

 

[Professur]

At least you know you don't have a mouse problem. One mouse and you'd never see a worm.

 

[Tucker99]

Since when do mice eat worms?

 

[rlitman]

They eat all sorts of bugs and insects.

 

[Professur]

Since when do mice eat worms?

http://animals.mom.me/mice-eat-nature-2618.html

Surprised me too the first time I saw it.

 

[AMCguy]

Actually worms don't need to be above water to breath. They absorb oxygen through their skin. This is something they can also do underwater. They do however need to keep their skin wet in order to breath.

They surface at night and when it rains, so they can get around and reproduce without predation or drying out. They do this aimlessly though and can end up almost anywhere, including in your garage. If the slab is on or below grade it will be a constant problem. If you edge around your driveway slab leaving a bit of a gap between soil and slab, they won't venture out onto the concrete. Neither will they climb up onto it.

Worms feed on the soil and they can't swim. They can only thrash about and hope to find their way to shallower water. If you find one dead in a puddle, it likely didn't drown, instead, it probably ingested too much water washing it's digestive tract clean and it starved to death.

 

[James E]

Actually worms don't need to be above water to breath. They absorb oxygen through their skin. This is something they can also do underwater. They do however need to keep their skin wet in order to breath.

They surface at night and when it rains, so they can get around and reproduce without predation or drying out. They do this aimlessly though and can end up almost anywhere, including in your garage. If the slab is on or below grade it will be a constant problem. If you edge around your driveway slab leaving a bit of a gap between soil and slab, they won't venture out onto the concrete. Neither will they climb up onto it.

Worms feed on the soil and they can't swim. They can only thrash about and hope to find their way to shallower water. If you find one dead in a puddle, it likely didn't drown, instead, it probably ingested too much water washing it's digestive tract clean and it starved to death.

...And they called him, the "worm whisperer".

 

[Richard Cranium]

ok, so I learned some thing new again today, this time it is about earth worms.

 

[CNGsaves]

Those little buggers also come up from impact of rain hitting the ground.

+1 to gather those wiggling gems up and GO FISHING !!

 

[Chasbec]

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. When it gives you worms, go fishing.

Really thought you were going to say wormade. Glad you didn't...

 

[Professur]

Those little buggers also come up from impact of rain hitting the ground.

+1 to gather those wiggling gems up and GO FISHING !!

Hence, Grunting. Great way for a kid to make some pocket money

 

[plow]

You are obviously NOT the early bird.

 

[kelpaso1]

ok, so I learned some thing new again today, this time it is about earth worms.

This forum has such a wealth of knowledge.