[brokenglass]

We have very few, it often appears to be no, worms on the Site due to New Zealand Flat Worms.    Does anyone have any method for removing/reducing this pest other than catching and killing them individually.     It was the recent Topic concerning just leaving Green Manure for the worms to take under the soil which prompted me to ask this.     Without worms the Plots are more work for less out than I think they should be.

[moose]

I think I read somewhere that when there are no ordinary worms left the NZ ones move out and our native one will come back but maybe that's my imagination or a dream from watching "Worms 1" or was it 2.








 I'd better go back to bed now.

[solway cropper]

Do you have any moles on the site?

[brokenglass]

No we don't have any Moles on site that could be due to the lack of worms as food not sure.      Flat Worms have the ability to enter a prolonged statis/hibernation, of up to two years when the worm populatioon drops down and the ability to "wake up" when they sense worm activity again.       

If anyone has any knowledge of a mthod to treat this pest I would be interested.

[Aunt Sally]

This seems like good advice:

http://www.gardenersworld.com/how-to/problems/lawns/new-zealand-flatworms/408.html

[brokenglass]

Many thanks Autie pity there doesn't appear to be a more profund solution other than kill the ones you find?     

[savbo]

Did you hear on GQT that Ground Beetles are now predating on NZ Flatworms? So anything you can do to encourage them (rock/log piles etc) may help. I had them in our Derry garden (vile things) and we had very few earthworms.

savbo