I nervously put small amounts through my strip shredder, or damp it down and spend an hour or so mindlessly tearing it up. Good therapy apparently hehehe..

I have a Fellowes Powershred confetti cut shredder that works good on the cardboard. I hand tear the cardboard so it will fit in the shredder and shred.

Ditto. Small pieces into the shredder

mikel wrote:

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I have a Fellowes Powershred confetti cut shredder that works good on the cardboard. I hand tear the cardboard so it will fit in the shredder and shred.

Well, I thought I would put some well rinsed seaweed on top of the bedding. I thought it owuld cut down on the bugs. It didn't. It just made more bugs! Lots of teeny little flies that died and littered the surface under any light.

I had had enough, so I shredded bunched of newspaper, soaked some peat with the newspaper and mixed it together to form a new bedding. THen I picked out some big fat worms and as many egg cases as I could find and plopped them in. Sad to say, the rest of the worms are now surviving on their own outside.

So the transported worms are doing fine, and it has cut down on the flies a lot. Some bugs got transferred along with the immigrants, though. I'm only putting in coffee grounds for awhile, to keep the fruit flies down.

lpaigeg wrote:

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Well, I thought I would put some well rinsed seaweed on top of the bedding. I thought it owuld cut down on the bugs. It didn't. It just made more bugs! Lots of teeny little flies that died and littered the surface under any light.

I had had enough, so I shredded bunched of newspaper, soaked some peat with the newspaper and mixed it together to form a new bedding. THen I picked out some big fat worms and as many egg cases as I could find and plopped them in. Sad to say, the rest of the worms are now surviving on their own outside.

So the transported worms are doing fine, and it has cut down on the flies a lot. Some bugs got transferred along with the immigrants, though. I'm only putting in coffee grounds for awhile, to keep the fruit flies down.

I have had good success taking a glass of sweet liquid, oj, apple juice, wine and taking a small drop of dawn dish detergent into the liquid and placing the whole glass in the bin. The fruit flies will be attracted to the liquid and the dawn causes the surface tension of the liquid to be broken when they land on it for a drink. They drown- problem gone.

For years I used soy-ink newsprint and now I have a cross cut shredder for our junk mail. Same results: good bedding for our worms.
Bruce in Pacific City, OR