hey, thats a really neat video. i,ll have to remember that trick.
sherman

 

Beats running the chainsaw!

 

Did that as a kid. We just took a bowl and poured juice down the wormhole. they come out quick. Kept a bucke tof walnut juice cookin behind the shed all summer. Got pretty nasty after a couple months though. Brings back the memories. Can't help laughing now at how many times we did the electric rod trick to get worms and forgot to unplug it before pickin up the worms !!! ya, you learn that quick. Great memories here, Mike

 

The active ingredient in the walnut husk is a compound called juglone. It can also be used to repel insects in the house such as fleas. Juglone is the same compound found in osage oranges; allegedly used by settlers to repel insects.

I believe that my uncle used to pour a mixture of mustard powder and water down the holes of nightcrawlers to have them come to the top.

 

When my Grandma was still alive a neighbor would bring her a box of osage oranges. She'd put on in each corner of every room and never had bugs.

 

This is such an awesome idea....i spent almost 2 hrs searching for worms like 2 years ago trying to pick up 3 dozen in my yard before going trolling one time.....hunched over with a flashlight....bad idea....next time i'll pay the kid across the street $2.00 a dozen lol

 

Really going to have to try that next year, thanks for posting.

 

Quite by accident, I discovered that a solution of bleach and water will do the same thing. I was cleaning out an old cooler one day and when I was finished washing it out I dumped the water in the yard. Nightcrawlers shot up everywhere. I caught some and put them in a bait bucket with some compost and a week later they were still alive.

 

When I was a kid and didn't have time to squat over a summers evening lawn with a flashlight in my mouth and coffee can in one hand, we would use a mix of bleach and water,, it worked well but you didn't want to use it in the same spot.

 

When I lived in Louisiana a teenager said we were going to catch some worms. He picks up a stick in the middle of the day. He goes over to a brushpile and starts scraping the stick on the ground. I was laughing a little as I thought he was pulling my leg. But, the crawlers came out of the ground so fast it was amazing. I guess they were african crawlers, light gray in color.

 

Wow!!!! That looks like it could work great!!! Gonna have to try that

 

Nice find. I just happen to have a walnut tree just behind my house...Guess what I'll be trying this spring.

 

if you want some nightcrawlers get out and catch them i was out last night and thet were every where hard to belive catching them in december

 

wish i had known about that this past spring/summer... my mom just moved from a house with a giant walnut tree in her backyard. Can you buy like a walnut extract or similar? Most of the time i try to catch my own worms but going outside at night with a flashlight doesn't always produce.

 

I am absolutly going to do this later on this year. There is a big section of 4 Mile with lots of black walnuts around. Free worms are the best kind! Thanks for posting

 

A little dish soap and some water does the trick I have used that one since I was eight and needed some worms fast


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The walnut water trick definitely works, I also found out by accident once. The problem is, and don't quote me on this, but I thought that the walnut trick actually killed the worms in short time, so you may want to try washing them off immediately after catching them. Something about the tannings in the husk being toxic to crawlers...

 

The hulls also contain rotenone , which is used as a pesticide. It kills fish , so some people use it for fishing , they fill up a burlap sack with the hulls , crush them and then throw the sack into a small body of water and pick up the small fish that float to the top.

 

thats an awesome idea never heard of anything like that.

 

Anyone in Trumbull county? My neighbor has a walnut tree and lets me have as many walnuts I want.

 

I was just talking to my brother about why there are no nightcrawlers on the property where we were raised because we used to catch thousands.
The difference now is that here are walnut trees covering the place!
I ran a 10 ton excavator clearing it and didn't see 1 worm! I saved 3 big walnut trees at one end. But got rid of 20-30 others. I took 3 cans of nightcrawlers and replanted them. Lol
When I asked Google if walnut trees killed worms it said no but it can kill dogs, fish, and other plants.
I think they're wrong because my sisters place has tons of worms and so does my neighbor. One difference? NO WALNUT TREES!
THIS IS INTERESTING!
I saw your vid and the way your walnut juice caused such a strong reaction. This leads me to believe that the overgrowth of walnuts is the culprit. I will know in a year or so if my reintroduction efforts were successful or not since I removed most of these trees. I like walnuts but the ones I saved are more than enough for the squirrels and myself to use.one tree alone is sixty feet plus tall. I remember it as I was growing up and believe all the others came from it.

 

THANK YOU FOR THIS!!
I was raised in Ohio in the 60-70s and we used carbide lamps to collect them at night. I just moved back after 40+ years and cleared my folks land which had grown over with walnut trees. Can't find a nightcrawler. Not one!
This gave me an idea hat all hose walnut trees may have run them off! I found them at my brothers house, my sister's house but none on the old place. I googled it and they say that walnut acid or juglone I think they called it doesn't kill or hurt nightcrawlers.
After watching this vid I beg to differ! Lol
Those worms popped up immediately! They reacted as if they were being burnt or hurt by something. I cleared all but 5 trees and now I put 3 boxes of worms around my house. I'll see if they spread in a year or so but that's the only difference hat I could tell in the farm that I grew up on. I remember dad planting that walnut or at least protecting it by putting an old tire around it. Tye squirrels planted about 50 more over the years and I had to remove most of them. It was a Freakin jungle of walnut trees and autumn olives that the coal company planted. Again! Thanks for this video! It may get me back my fishing worms.

 

I remember my parents putting Osage in the basement for spiders. Then I would see them making webs on them. So who knows.😂