If the planter boxes are on the back porch but not on the front porch, this could explain why they are taking over the back patio and leaving the front patio alone. They are (of course) planter boxes, so they are perhaps on the patios themselves, but this isn’t explicitly mentioned. (A worm’s body must stay moist for it to breathe through its skin.) We also aren’t sure where the planter boxes are located. (For the record, we have received questions about skinny worms on the patio and slugs on patios, so our reader can consult these if she wants to learn about what she might be finding.) It would, however, be helpful to see a picture of the front and back patios so that we could see if there are any relevant differences between the two.įor instance, one of our first thoughts was that the front patio might be covered, and in which case it obviously wouldn’t be getting wet and therefore wouldn’t be an attractive place for a worm to crawl. We were given no pictures to go along with our reader’s question, so we aren’t entirely sure how to visualize the worms, but in this instance it isn’t all that important because our reader isn’t interested in identifying exactly what she found. What can our reader do to get rid of the hundreds of skinny worms that are overwhelming her patio after it rains? Interestingly, the reader has a front patio that is unaffected by the problem, even though planter boxes are near this patio as well. She is understandably keen to remedy this problem, and wants to know what to do to discourage the worms from invading her terrace. Once the rain stops and the worms dry out, they produce an unpleasant odor, so the reader is left to clean up a ton of dead worms that smell bad. The worms not only spread out over the tiles on her patio, but also on the walls and doors of her house.
The worms are a little over an inch long (about three centimeters), and they are coming from planter boxes nearby.
A reader wrote to us recently about the hundreds of skinny worms that appear on her back patio after it rains.
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