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I found it in my worm farm. 😭 Thought it might be a mite, but this one has claws... I also don't know how to make the picture upload clearer. I've had my bin for almost a year now, and it's the first time I've seen this.

It's about 0.5cm long. The length of the claws are the same length as its body. It looks like scorpion claws. 8 legs...

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After taking a break and having to go back to work, I've discovered that this is a pseudoscorpion. Turns out that they are totally harmless and actually beneficial! They eat other bugs and they ignore the worms.

They also hunt the little flies that seem to plague worm bins. So now that I know what this is, it's going back in to the bin. 

Edit: Turns out there are more! When I picked up a little piece of newspaper to scoop it out of the little bowl, there were some hidden in the folds of the newspaper. Yay! Adding a few tags.

#Bugs #Pseudoscorpion #Arachnid #TodayILearned #TIL #Composting #Compost #Vermiculture #Worms

The other marker of the turning of the seasons is the #wormfarm has been evicted from the conservatory.

We really neglect the poor blighters, but they seem to hang on in there. We have had this for a few years now, still with its original worms. (Well, their descendants I presume.) I have popped some veg waste, shredded card, and coffee grounds in the empty middle layer and shifted the bottom tray at the top and left it open to encourage the worms to migrate downwards.

I also collected the worm wee in a big screw top tub.

We should make better use of their wormy efforts really.

Next job was mopping the clearish 2/3 of the conservatory including the tragic job of soaking the dried corpses of escapee worms off the lino. 😢

#wormbin #wormery

I bought a #wormfarm a few months back, and I've never had one of these before. I have a bokashi bin, but I just eat way too much fruit for it to handle all of the peels, so I thought why not get a worm farm to handle all of the non-citrus and foods that they like, and keep my bokashi bin for non-worm things.

Since getting it, we've had real hot days (35C+), and more recently, 40C+ for days, so I always wake up to a few on my floor that have met an unfortunate end.

I haven't put too much food in to it yet, just bits here and there and hoping they'll enjoy themselves enough inside to not want to try to escape.

Here, I've put some coffee grounds and some corn silk and mixed it all in. The worms have since gone to town, and there's barely any of it left. I just dropped little bits of lettuce in today, so I'll see how it goes. The hope is to generate fertiliser and a lovely soil to put towards my garden. 🌱

If you have any tips whatsoever for this newbie, let me know.

#vermiculture #maze #compost #compostrevolution #worms #zerowaste #urbangardening

“I’ve wanted a worm farm for about a year since I started growing my own and composting. My housemate’s colleague had one that he didn’t use any more and kindly gave it to me, along with the rest of the food, bedding and other bits he had for it - all I had to do was supply the worms!”

A great example of #kindness to people and planet from our social media manager, @alexisbushnell, absolutely wonderful.

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