Larry Hodgson says if you want to see where the Asian jumping worm gets its name, simply put it in a bowl. Then stand back and watch.
“They’ll get out of it,” said the Quebec City-based gardening writer, who also goes by the epithet the Laidback Gardner. “These things literally jump. A regular earthworm would have a hard time with that. They just sort of leap and they’re quite amazing to watch.”
Watching is exactly what Hodgson and the rest of the Canadian gardening world have been doing these past few years as this army of creepy crawlies slowly advances north from Canada’s southern
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