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jlance
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Do Centipedes eat worms? - 2005/12/01 10:13 This is an old subject but I have never seen a Centipede eating a worm or a cocoon.One day I lifted the plastic covering and there were lots of the slender centipedes and a small ball of worms. There were centipedes intwined in the ball but all the young(leaves out new cocoons) worms where whole and healthy.One time I had a bin to dry and was crumbling up the clods and found a worm in its burrow and a centipede.The Centipede ran off and the worm was just find.There seems to be some kind of coexitinced. I have seem them eating mites on top of the bedding.Not trying to dispute understand.
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redhen

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Re:Do Centipedes eat worms? - 2005/12/01 12:02 I think I read that centipedes can prey on earthworms, but earthworms are not their primary food source. It would be unusual for centipede numbers, in a bin, to be great enough to have any measurable impact on the worm population. I really welcome all the creatures in my outdoor bins and find it a fascinating community to drop in on and observe. If only we human types could work so well together in our earthly bin! Susan Quinby-Honer
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Maureen

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Re:Do Centipedes eat worms? - 2005/12/02 16:12 Indeed, if we could all work together, the good, the not so good and the variously talented....

Also, I just ran across Niki Stojnic's article:

"Earthworm Predators" in WD#19. Niki says the centipede can use its poison prongs to catch earthworms and other prey. That seems to be saying that the centipede dines from a diverse menu.
Pesticides and fungicides decimated more worms than all the natural predators put together.

Does anyone remember this article?
Apparently, there were many municipal vermiculture programs that died out in the mid-1980's.

I am veering from the centipede, I know. I will start a new post.

BuBye!

Maureen

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