What sort of worms are composters?
There are many different types of creatures with the name worm, such as gloworms and mealworms, but all the useful composting and garden worms are earthworms. There are more than 2000 species of earthworms worldwide but, thankfully, you don’t need them all! At Wiggly Wigglers we find the best worms for composting waste are ‘dendras’ Dendrabaena veneta and ‘reds’ Eisenia andreii. These species are sometimes called tiger worms, brandlings or surface litter worms. The same composting worm species, reds and dendras, are equally at home composting both kitchen waste and garden waste. The other earthworm species available from Wiggly Wigglers is the familiar garden worm Lumbricus terrestris, commonly known as the ‘lob’ worm.
