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Dammit, I fail... Juniper !!E37Cu7ZV9Jx
So I just made a lengthy post about gross Earthworms and posted it @ the wrong place so I deleted it (didn't think about copy/pasting >_<). Too lazy to write it up again, so here it is in a nutshell:

Why do earthworms come out of the ground when its raining? Its not raining that hard and the ground is littered with them. It's disgusting.
>> Anonymous
>>232392
Mostly to breathe. Even if it isn't raining too hard, the ground gets waterlogged so they need to surface.

Yeah, they're gross. But you need to appreciate what they do for us. Like aerating the soil. And being fishbait.
>> Anonymous
>>232395But you need to appreciate what they do for us.

They are seriously super powered in large numbers.

http://journeytoforever.org/farm_library/oliver/oliver_farm.html
>> Anonymous
>>232395
>But you need to appreciate what they do for us.

why? it's not like they're going to go on strike if you don't.
>> Juniper !!E37Cu7ZV9Jx
>>232408

I lol'ed.
>> Anonymous
>>232408

You haven't see Bee Movie have you?
>> Anonymous
>>232487

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGRSiI2kxYs
>> Anonymous
>>232392

they can navigate easier (slithering n shit) on slippery surfaces, hence why theyre underground the rest of the time. slimy fuckers.
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Hmm, I think most posters are missing the point.
Most animals need to respire (exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide) via wet flesh. For fish this is no problem (gills). For mammals, the wet flesh is the mucus-lined stuff inside our lungs. For earthworms, the wet flesh is the exterior flesh.
I don't know if they can respire in water but I wouldn't be surprised. Certainly wet topsoil would not drown them, otherwise they would have died out a long time ago. Completely flooded topsoil, maybe not, but that rarely happens.
The main thing is that they can't respire when their skin dries out, so they avoid going anywhere dry. When sidewalks are wet, they don't mind going on them, so then we have an opportunity to see how many thousands of earthworms are in a typical lawn. They're just exploring around, looking for new territory, etc. They don't realize that venturing out on the sidewalk is probably more likely to get them dead than get them a juicy new patch of dirt to eat.