What happened to those worms in puddles you used to see in the 70's? Does that still happen?

Question

What happened to those worms in puddles you used to see in the 70's? Does that still happen?

Answer 1

The first 2 answers are quite good.  Yes, earthworms surface when the ground becomes so saturated they have trouble breathing.  Yes, you need to walk outside.  Yes, you need to take time to look.  But you need to look in a place with bare earth that isn't covered by buildings, pavement, or dense grass.  Places like that have become hard to find.

Answer 2

yes of course. As we get older we don't play as we did when we were kids and we don't look at things with the same sense of wonder. As kids we went out after the rain and looked at everything just to look, cause we would be bored if we weren't looking at stuff. I bet you've walked right by one recently and never even looked. Take kid for a walk, you see more than you have in years.

Answer 3

Those worms were earthworms.  They are still there, but we don't see them as often because we don't walk as much.  In a seemingly case of "out of the pan and into the fire", the earthworms are trying to escape drowning.  Earthworms breathe through their skins and will drown if emersed in water, so in order to escape their water saturated home, they end up in puddles.  Nature is sometimes ironic.

Answer 4

this was a good question.