Can't wait for this from Scientific American. Worm grunting is sort of tradition in the Florida Panhandle where I grew up. One of the few memories I have of my dad is a grunting expedition in our yard when I must have been 5 or 6. Sopchoppy (that's right, Sopchoppy) is the unofficial worm-grunting capitol, and home to the annual Worm Gruntin' Festival (the "g" must be excluded), with the 10th annual edition coming up next month. Biological significance? Well, no less an authority than Charles Darwin speculated that the worms come to surface because they interpret the vibrations as a foraging mole. This in his 1881 book, The Formation of Vegetable Mould. There were doubters, but Darwin's ideas were supported by this work by Vanderbilt's Kenneth Catania.
Monday, March 8, 2010
Worm grunters
Can't wait for this from Scientific American. Worm grunting is sort of tradition in the Florida Panhandle where I grew up. One of the few memories I have of my dad is a grunting expedition in our yard when I must have been 5 or 6. Sopchoppy (that's right, Sopchoppy) is the unofficial worm-grunting capitol, and home to the annual Worm Gruntin' Festival (the "g" must be excluded), with the 10th annual edition coming up next month. Biological significance? Well, no less an authority than Charles Darwin speculated that the worms come to surface because they interpret the vibrations as a foraging mole. This in his 1881 book, The Formation of Vegetable Mould. There were doubters, but Darwin's ideas were supported by this work by Vanderbilt's Kenneth Catania.
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