Night crawlers are a form of earthworm. Prized primarily for use as fishing bait, night crawlers are generally known as either Canadian or European.
The worms are collected by headlamp-wearing hunters. The worms come out from the ground only at night (or when the ground is deeply saturated following a decent rain fall).
Minnesota is known as the state with ten thousand Lakes, hell no I have not counted them but there are many, okay? And fishing is a passion like Hockey for these folks. And of course, in order to fish you need bait, right? The bait of choice is night crawlers. So my grandson has become quite the entrepreneur. And as he catches them mostly at night, after a heavy rain, he is one busy young man. He also informed me; "grandma they are fast, you gotta be quick!" This usually means either his Father or Grandfather goes with him at night to shine the flashlight which allows him to use both hands.
Once caught, they need to be counted and placed in containers that have worm food (or something akin to worm food). A dozen per container is the game plan. Then, kept in a cool place (preferable not Mom's refrigerator) until they can be sold. This enterprising young man, sells them for $2 a dozen (which is a good price) and he has a contract with the local sport's shop for ten dozen per week. Now if it does not rain, he merely soaks the yard and waits! He is not akin to digging for them either...but its much more fun to have them pop up at night and he grabs them!
He also mows lawn to earn money as we wants a certain hockey stick next year and that is anything but cheap. He is just one busy young man and has figured out, on his own, ways to earn money and he is ten years old. But his real passion is hockey and we were fortunate to watch him play in an invitational tournament in Fargo while visiting last week.
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Good luck with your business Alex and have a great summer but also remember to read books...that is important too.
Once caught, they need to be counted and placed in containers that have worm food (or something akin to worm food). A dozen per container is the game plan. Then, kept in a cool place (preferable not Mom's refrigerator) until they can be sold. This enterprising young man, sells them for $2 a dozen (which is a good price) and he has a contract with the local sport's shop for ten dozen per week. Now if it does not rain, he merely soaks the yard and waits! He is not akin to digging for them either...but its much more fun to have them pop up at night and he grabs them!
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