why you should always bake or boil you indoor substrate

[naturalman91]

if you are going to cultivate earth worms then the best way/material to do this in is one that has a moist area in the enclosure...and make sure that the same area remains the moist warm area....

i remember harvesting earthworms as a kid in Arkansas during the summer we always kept the area moist with something like a piece of wood over it we'd get a ton of worms

 

[ascott]

a piece of wood over it we'd get a ton of worms

That is perfect.....

 

[Yellow Turtle01]

I have never baked mine but I've also never had bug issues with coir. I did have them with organic garden soil though. I had a MAJOR fungus gnat problem that I finally got under control when I put a bunch of rollie pollies in that substrate. (Was for my boxie)
I don't know why the pollies fixed the problem because that isn't why I added them lol.

I believe that they eat them. I just know that the number of nats living in the coir dropped WAY down after I added them