BANGOR DAILY NEWS • January 28, 2025
Mainers reported drastically fewer invasive “crazy worms” disrupting their soil in 2024 after an apparent population explosion the year before. Also known as Asian jumping worms or snake worms, they’ve been in Maine for more than a century but have been multiplying in recent years. Nearly impossible to stop, the fast-reproducing worms eat through organic matter in soil, making it harder to grow plants, and posing a big risk to the state’s valuable forests if they spread.