Featured Customer Questions: Mike G.
I have a tray system and it has worked beautifully for about a year. It has been very hot here in NYC lately and I just went to check them after about 2 weeks or so and my worms are all gone! So bodies, no smell. The leftover stuff they left is no drier or wetter than normal.
My babies are gone! They didn’t even leave a note! Any ideas of what happened? Could they have decomposed within a week or so??
Thanks…
Hi Mike,
I’m sorry to hear about your worms. Losing your worms is not a good experience. I’m going to make a couple of assumptions here:
I’m going to assume you have something on the bottom of the bottom tray so the worms didn’t end up sitting in the standing water in the base?
I’m going to assume your bin is in total shade? If the outside of your bin gets warm to the touch….worms are starting to fry.
Without seeing the situation, I can only guess at what happened. If it ’s not either of the above items, what likely happened is that your existing food scraps broke down very quickly, turning into a vinegar solution for your worms. That is the fastest way to kill a healthy herd.
Although your weather has been very hot, that would not normally kill your worms.
It sounds like you enjoyed your worms. Don’t let one bad incident turn you off. We’ve all been through it.