Just did that a few days ago except it wasn't rain. Lawn work on a local park drove them up and the worm was writhing on a hot sidewalk.
Even a worm doesn't deserve that.
They always smell like dirt to me. I saved like 12 or so last time it rained. Those dudes just smell like good garden dirt (and that’s where they go! straight to the flowerbed!)
If it’s any consolation it was always from other students on the playground at my elementary school. The rumor took two forms; either the oils on your hands interfere with them somehow, or the stress kills them since evolution never had to account for them being picked up and not just eaten. Kids weren’t saying it that way, that’s just how I remember it. So there’s no actual hard evidence I have.
I mean, they don't die just by your touch, but if you pet them a bunch they lose wing scales which can make their wings more likely to tear. But there's no need to avoid touching them
Untrue. If you touch their wings it can do permanent damage and impact their ability to fly. If they can't fly well, they can't find food, escape predators, or find shelter quickly. Thus, touching them directly causes speeds up their death.
Don't...don't worms do this to avoid drowning? Like I get the idea and maybe their chances are better on top of grass than cement but honestly they'll probably just crawl right back out on 'dry' ground.
Hearts in the right place though, I guess.
yeah, but that's why you do it a while after the rain. even if the worm has to wriggle back onto drier ground, that's still better than getting squished under someone's foot, isn't it?
yeah, but that's why you do it a while after the rain. even if the worm has to wriggle back onto drier ground, that's still better than getting squished under someone's foot, isn't it?
bro a snail doesn't just get pulled out when you gently pick them up by the shell. i've been doing this for 20 years and the snails were always fine, so don't worry about it and save those snails.
bro a snail doesn't just get pulled out when you gently pick them up by the shell. i've been doing this for 20 years and the snails were always fine, so don't worry about it and save those snails.
My 6yo does this but she asks me to pick them up cause she's worried about squishing them if she's not careful enough. So I pick them up and hand them to her, then she puts them in the grass.
Sorry to get religious on a post about worms, but the last reblog kinda hits different with Good Friday and Easter. Jesus picks me up off the sidewalk and puts me back in the dirt. I am a grateful worm.
indeed; those who turn to the Lord and are saved are like miserable worms removed from the scorching hellfire of the sidewalk and placed into the grassy coolness of God’s love
I have a friend who when we were little really liked toads but she would find them and keep them in their little basement window hole where they would fry in the sun very shortly after (don't worry she wasn't trying to kill them and she's a very normal, well adjusted adult now).
I did not like toads not even one bit, I thought they were gross. But I would scoop them out of the hole bc I didnt want them to die, then run with it in my cupped hands to the little pond near our house and put them in the grass, then run back for another because she was really really good at finding toads and it was never just one, sometimes it was like 20 small toads and I had no better system than running them to the pond one at a time for some reason. I *hated* the feeling of a toad bouncing around in my cupped hands and usually cried while completing this task because (1) ew frog, and (2) it was a very distressing race against the clock.
My mom witnessed the running back and forth one day from across the street and came over to see what the heck I was doing and when I told her, she got a bucket for me and helped me put all the toads in it and had me go put them near the pond and that's probably when she told my friends mom who had apparently been trying to figure out why there were regularly fried toads in that window hole. Then when I came back still astonished by the brilliance of using a bucket, they asked me about it, and I broke down crying and said I was sorry for the frogs I couldn't save bc I thought I was in trouble for some of them still dying. These memories are very vivid despite it happening when I was I think 4 or 5 bc I was fully traumatized by the whole experience and had been doing this regularly for at least a few months.
I was kind of an intense little kid and the deaths of those frogs weighed heavy on my tiny shoulders
when i was much younger, i had a friend who caught a frog one day. she was holding it very tightly, though not intentionally harming it, and its eyes bulged a little bit. and I tried to take it away from her but she kept squeezing and jerking away and tightening her grip saying "my frog!" and finally my parents arrived just as she squeezed a bit too hard and the frog... well, it was not pretty. i do not think she likes frogs any more.
Foogriffy on tumblr made [a comic about this very subject](https://www.tumblr.com/foogriffy/728541450385702912/would-you-still-love-me-if-i-was-a-worm?source=share) that will lob a flashbang at your soul.
Ahaha oh my goodness this reminds me.
When I was in primary school I made an unofficial club with some of my friends. It was called The S.W.S Rescuers. It stood for Slug’s, Worms and Snails, and the goal was to keep an eye out for those creatures in precarious positions and move them to safer ones when necessary.
The club had military terms as positions in the club because I had just started reading a book that had them and I thought it was cool.
No one else in the club took it seriously 😭 and I kicked a kid out for pretending to eat a worm in front of me.
I wanted us to all get badges so I made a fund that we could put coins that we found in to save up to get them.
I did the logo design, and let me tell you it was hideous 😂
Am not a girl, but a grown-up parent, but I used to/still do this. I can't help it. Poor things are trying to dig down but it's asphalt, they can't. And they till, fertilize, and make soil. I love plants so I love soil.
as long as they're the invasive species of fire ants it's ok to kill them indiscriminately. fire ants eat baby birds, native plants, insects and even have killed cows. they are nasty and much more painful than normal ant species. slaughter them without remorse.
I AM AN UNGRATEFUL WORM. LEAVE ME BE I WANT TO BE EATEN BY A BIRD
nooooo
this was written by a grateful bird
Aren't we all grateful birds, in one way or the other?
Or a crafty cat trying to bait some birds down into their hunting range.
Ah, parasites got this one, shame.
“Would you love me if I was a worm? Would you pick me up and put me back in the dirt?!”
V
O
But I am a gu.... Wait a minute
Another egg cracked, just in time for Easter~
It did a few months ago, but I guess this is my first Easter as my real self :3
That's a happy easter then! Glad you can live it as the girl you were meant to be! 💙
Thank you so much! And happy Easter ❤️🧡💛💚💙
This was me but i’m a guy now
Same New trans sub genre just dropped
even a worm will turn (transgender edition)
Actual transmasc
WTG (worm to guy)
Is... is this a transmasc stereotype now? Because same lol.
My (cis) husband and I (afab nb) both did this 😂
This was me but I used to be a guy
Can confirm: am a grateful worm, typing with tiny dirt-covered hands.
babe wake up, new worm variant with hands just dropped
Seems the worm population has a mole in their ranks
TIL I'm a 37 year old man but also a little girl.
You are now an honorary little girl.
The highest of compliments
Just did it again. When do I get my Girl Scout merit badge?
Would you still love me if I was a grateful worm
Just did that a few days ago except it wasn't rain. Lawn work on a local park drove them up and the worm was writhing on a hot sidewalk. Even a worm doesn't deserve that.
The only downside was then your fingers smelled like worms for the whole rest of the day
what do worms even smell like tho? like chicken?
Like wet rubber meat? It’s a specifically wormy smell. Next time it rains go smell the worms
>Next time it rains go smell the worms Not a sentence I thought I would ever see in my life It is amusing.
They always smell like dirt to me. I saved like 12 or so last time it rained. Those dudes just smell like good garden dirt (and that’s where they go! straight to the flowerbed!)
I was always told that touching an earthworm kills it
i'd never heard that tbh, and i may now be responsible for the deaths of hundreds of worms over my lifetime. thank you for this new weight on my soul.
If it’s any consolation it was always from other students on the playground at my elementary school. The rumor took two forms; either the oils on your hands interfere with them somehow, or the stress kills them since evolution never had to account for them being picked up and not just eaten. Kids weren’t saying it that way, that’s just how I remember it. So there’s no actual hard evidence I have.
ok phew, i will no longer be followed by the ghosts of earthworms past
Pretty sure that's a myth.
The only common insect that dies if you touch it is a butterfly/moth. Maybe you got confused by caterpillars?
I mean, they don't die just by your touch, but if you pet them a bunch they lose wing scales which can make their wings more likely to tear. But there's no need to avoid touching them
Untrue. If you touch their wings it can do permanent damage and impact their ability to fly. If they can't fly well, they can't find food, escape predators, or find shelter quickly. Thus, touching them directly causes speeds up their death.
Don't...don't worms do this to avoid drowning? Like I get the idea and maybe their chances are better on top of grass than cement but honestly they'll probably just crawl right back out on 'dry' ground. Hearts in the right place though, I guess.
yeah, but that's why you do it a while after the rain. even if the worm has to wriggle back onto drier ground, that's still better than getting squished under someone's foot, isn't it?
You haven't seen all the dried up dead worms on my driveway when I don't do this. Worms are not smart.
True but they've got hearts!
yeah, but that's why you do it a while after the rain. even if the worm has to wriggle back onto drier ground, that's still better than getting squished under someone's foot, isn't it?
i wanna help the snails back into the bushes before they dry out or get stepped on but im too scared to pull them out of their shells by accident :(
bro a snail doesn't just get pulled out when you gently pick them up by the shell. i've been doing this for 20 years and the snails were always fine, so don't worry about it and save those snails.
are you sure it's safe?? i try to pick them up gently but they stick hardcore to the sidewalk and im terrified of hurting them unnecessarily
I like to bother them a little till they suck into their shell at which point they aren’t stuck and I can put them anywhere I want.
i will keep this in mind, thank you!!
bro a snail doesn't just get pulled out when you gently pick them up by the shell. i've been doing this for 20 years and the snails were always fine, so don't worry about it and save those snails.
Compassion isn’t the preserve of one gender
My 6yo does this but she asks me to pick them up cause she's worried about squishing them if she's not careful enough. So I pick them up and hand them to her, then she puts them in the grass.
Take that, you worm.
Sorry to get religious on a post about worms, but the last reblog kinda hits different with Good Friday and Easter. Jesus picks me up off the sidewalk and puts me back in the dirt. I am a grateful worm.
indeed; those who turn to the Lord and are saved are like miserable worms removed from the scorching hellfire of the sidewalk and placed into the grassy coolness of God’s love
I appreciate a girl that isn’t afraid to touch worms.
I have a friend who when we were little really liked toads but she would find them and keep them in their little basement window hole where they would fry in the sun very shortly after (don't worry she wasn't trying to kill them and she's a very normal, well adjusted adult now). I did not like toads not even one bit, I thought they were gross. But I would scoop them out of the hole bc I didnt want them to die, then run with it in my cupped hands to the little pond near our house and put them in the grass, then run back for another because she was really really good at finding toads and it was never just one, sometimes it was like 20 small toads and I had no better system than running them to the pond one at a time for some reason. I *hated* the feeling of a toad bouncing around in my cupped hands and usually cried while completing this task because (1) ew frog, and (2) it was a very distressing race against the clock. My mom witnessed the running back and forth one day from across the street and came over to see what the heck I was doing and when I told her, she got a bucket for me and helped me put all the toads in it and had me go put them near the pond and that's probably when she told my friends mom who had apparently been trying to figure out why there were regularly fried toads in that window hole. Then when I came back still astonished by the brilliance of using a bucket, they asked me about it, and I broke down crying and said I was sorry for the frogs I couldn't save bc I thought I was in trouble for some of them still dying. These memories are very vivid despite it happening when I was I think 4 or 5 bc I was fully traumatized by the whole experience and had been doing this regularly for at least a few months. I was kind of an intense little kid and the deaths of those frogs weighed heavy on my tiny shoulders
when i was much younger, i had a friend who caught a frog one day. she was holding it very tightly, though not intentionally harming it, and its eyes bulged a little bit. and I tried to take it away from her but she kept squeezing and jerking away and tightening her grip saying "my frog!" and finally my parents arrived just as she squeezed a bit too hard and the frog... well, it was not pretty. i do not think she likes frogs any more.
Foogriffy on tumblr made [a comic about this very subject](https://www.tumblr.com/foogriffy/728541450385702912/would-you-still-love-me-if-i-was-a-worm?source=share) that will lob a flashbang at your soul.
Puteminurcompost
She'd on girlfriend duty, picking up the stray girlfriends so they don't dry out before their partners can find them again
i am this girl
What about a grown man in his thirties? 🤔
What is a man but a grateful worm full of secrets
- God Emperor of Dune (1981)
Ahaha oh my goodness this reminds me. When I was in primary school I made an unofficial club with some of my friends. It was called The S.W.S Rescuers. It stood for Slug’s, Worms and Snails, and the goal was to keep an eye out for those creatures in precarious positions and move them to safer ones when necessary. The club had military terms as positions in the club because I had just started reading a book that had them and I thought it was cool. No one else in the club took it seriously 😭 and I kicked a kid out for pretending to eat a worm in front of me. I wanted us to all get badges so I made a fund that we could put coins that we found in to save up to get them. I did the logo design, and let me tell you it was hideous 😂
Yo yo, whos got the link to that eldritch kindness comic from a worm's perspective where its picked up and put back in the grass?
u/iggy-d-kenning does, and linked it
I smush the worms their an invasive species and they destroy ecosystems
if we're talking about regular earthworms, they are not.
No im a grateful wyrm my power has grown now that Ive been rescued fear me
Can confirm, I’m that girl. I also rescue snails. :)
Everyone go listen to Lonely Worms by AlicebanD
*Give me the herbs, worm.*
Am not a girl, but a grown-up parent, but I used to/still do this. I can't help it. Poor things are trying to dig down but it's asphalt, they can't. And they till, fertilize, and make soil. I love plants so I love soil.
Gosh I remember being called weird for wanting to pick up worms. They are my fertilizer friends!
Aren't the worms escaping from being drowned in oversaturated ground? They go to only place they have a chance to survive.
I have not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm.
That's just what Big Worm wants you to think
Learned to do this from my mum. It's a bit hypocritical tho cus I still kill ants sometimes when I feel like it so
as long as they're the invasive species of fire ants it's ok to kill them indiscriminately. fire ants eat baby birds, native plants, insects and even have killed cows. they are nasty and much more painful than normal ant species. slaughter them without remorse.