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Why is it that every time it rains, I get a bunch of earthworms on the bottom of my pool! Tired of cleaning them out!

Do they think that when it rains it's time to commit Seppuku?

Posted - April 7, 2017

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  • LOL!
      April 7, 2017 8:25 AM MDT
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  • Ewww....worms! Collect em, let's go fishing!
      April 7, 2017 8:14 AM MDT
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  • They get nasty after a day on the bottom!
      April 7, 2017 8:21 AM MDT
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  • I think they're pool worms... Unless your pool is full of earth.. Ok  enough frivolity
    See that thing in the picture... I think that may be the relief valve fur the pool... I'm no expert but an in ground pool needs it otherwise once the soil becomes Saturated the pool will tend to float... So that valve opens... I'm guessing, don't lose sight of that word, that the worms may enter in through that.
      April 7, 2017 8:15 AM MDT
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  • No, they can't come in through mine. It's different than the one in that image.
      April 7, 2017 8:20 AM MDT
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  • Back to seppuku!
      April 7, 2017 8:40 AM MDT
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  • 6477
    I have a solution for you! Fill in the pool, make a lovely rockery garden :P LOL I love earthworms and am dead envious, (Ok not envy - admire) that you have a pool. I suspect there is soil near the pool.....perhaps create more hard paving around the pool?
      April 7, 2017 8:16 AM MDT
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  • Mostly grass and some bark but I can't figure out why they kill themselves in the pool! LOL
      April 7, 2017 8:21 AM MDT
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  •   April 7, 2017 8:31 AM MDT
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  • 6477
    they get washed out of the soil and bark when it rains.  You have to learn to think like a worm to prevent this terrible waste of life :P
      April 7, 2017 8:33 AM MDT
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  •   April 7, 2017 8:35 AM MDT
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  • 5614
    Methink everytime it rains the earth fills up with water drowning the worms. The worms seeking air wiggle up to the surface where they get swept or worm their way into your pool. Just a hunch. Poor critters are oxygen deprived and wiggling all around trying to get back beneath the surface at the same time. Such agony. This post was edited by O-uknow at April 7, 2017 2:13 PM MDT
      April 7, 2017 9:25 AM MDT
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  • https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-earthworms-surface-after-rain/
      April 7, 2017 10:08 AM MDT
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  • 44178
    Throw in some sunfish...they will be gone in no time.
      April 7, 2017 1:08 PM MDT
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  • 22891
    cause they like your pool, thats why
      April 9, 2017 5:00 PM MDT
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