A third type of earthworm might be in the yard if you have a compost pile: the manure worm or red wiggler.

Worms come in many sizes, from tiny red wigglers to 11-foot Australian giants.

It's a little red wiggler.

A. Right now I have, of the red wigglers, close to 40,000 worms.

Fishermen also like red wigglers.

The 50,000, however, were the "red wigglers" that he raises.

So far as he knows, he's the only commerical farmer of red wigglers in Connecticut.

She plans to display the common epigeic worms, known as red wigglers, and anecic worms, popularly called nightcrawlers.

I think people have a spiritual connection to my little red wigglers.

A pound of red wigglers, 600 to 1,000 in all, is available from Flowerfield Enterprises for $24 (269-327-0108 or www.wormwoman.com).