What are these worms when it rains here? (live, garage door)

[Rick Lee]

I see these worms once in a while directly under the seam where my garage door meets the ground and only when it rains. They look too big to be maggots and too small to be earthworms Must have been 300-400 of them today. What are they? There is no stench of death or anything I think would attract maggots.

[wit-nit]

Fishin' worms, time to hit the lakes.

They is called 'red worms'.
http://www.worm-farming.com/

[Serenity1944]

If you have no children or pets to get to the area where the worms are, try baking soda in the seam, and sprinkle around the perimeters of the garage. I do that everywhere I live, including the house/apt. Kills catarpillars that come off the trees occasionally, roaches, spiders, ants, water bugs, etc.

[cactusland]

Originally Posted by Serenity1944

If you have no children or pets to get to the area where the worms are, try baking soda in the seam, and sprinkle around the perimeters of the garage. I do that everywhere I live, including the house/apt. Kills catarpillars that come off the trees occasionally, roaches, spiders, ants, water bugs, etc.

Hate to break it to you, but baking soda isn't going to kill roaches one bit, unless they ingest it. And straight as-is they won't eat it. They might not like it, but it won't in its unadulterated powdered form, hurt them.

[observer53]

Originally Posted by cactusland

Hate to break it to you, but baking soda isn't going to kill roaches one bit, unless they ingest it. And straight as-is they won't eat it. They might not like it, but it won't in its unadulterated powdered form, hurt them.

Right. You have to mix it (actually flour is better) with boric acid crystals. That does work.

To the OP-- I've seen those occasionally after a lot of rain where I live, too, but not for a while. I called them slugs, but when I look up slugs online, they don't look like that.

[Rick Lee]

I'm not concerned with getting rid of them until I find out what they are, what attracts them and if they're bad news. If they're termite larvae, that's a problem. A weird kind of earthworm, they're welcome to stay.