McCay, whose research focuses on understanding how the worms invade intact forests, and their effect on forest biodiversity, cautions that "gardeners should do what they can to avoid spreading jumping worms to new areas." Because the worms typically move into forests from nearby gardens, he said, control in home and community gardens is necessary to slow their invasion into natural habitats.

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A Department for Education (DfE) spokesperson said: 'No teacher should feel unsafe or face violence in the workplace and we are taking action to improve pupils' behaviour to ensure every school has a safe and respectable environment.

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Timothy McCay, a biology and environmental studies professor at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York. But their existence went largely unnoticed - or perhaps underreported - until the past decade, when ecologists flagged them as problematic, according to Dr.

13, 2020, image provided by Kaleigh Gale shows a captured Asian jumping worm in Portland, Conn. The species is distinguished from other earthworms by the presence of a creamy gray or white band encircling its body.

He knows of one gardener in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, who removed 51,000 worms that way in 2021. But McCay said picking them out by hand and dropping them into containers of vinegar will reduce their numbers.

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The glossy worms can be either gray or brown, with a smooth cream or white collar that wraps entirely around part of their bodies.

When touched, they thrash from side to side, jump, and may even slither back and forth like a snake. That behavior, coupled with their ability to reproduce rapidly without a mate, gives them an advantage over predators, McCay said.

Allow me to introduce you to Amynthas agrestis, also known as "Alabama jumper," "Jersey wriggler" and the rude-but-accurate "crazy worm." Unlike garden-variety earthworms, these flipping, thrashing, invasive miscreants are ravenous consumers of humus, the rich, organic, essential top layer of soil formed by dead and decaying small animals, insects and leaf litter in places like forests, plant nurseries and your garden.

Although their annual life cycle ends in winter, Asian jumping worm cocoons survive to spawn a new generation in spring.

Their tiny eggs are nearly impossible to notice in soil or mulch, but adult worms, which range from 3 to 8 inches long, are easy to spot close to the soil surface and can often be seen moving under mulch or leaf litter, McCay said.