Are worms dangerous?

Question

to the flowers i'm planting?
i started out with plain dirt last week and now these little worms (skinnier than toothpick) are sneaking around in the dirt. what will they do to my flower/seed? and how big will they grow? can i leave them there?

thanks! (:

(than A toothpick)

EDIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
it looks like one of these horse hair worms

http://kaweahoaks.com/html/horsehair_worm01.jpg

really skinny and red

but i dont know if it was that long because i wasnt bout to go digging at it..........

Answer 1

if they are earthworms, they are very GOOD for your garden. They aerate the soil AND worm poop is good fertilizer. If they are some other kind of worms/larva, then who knows, there's lot of critters in dirt.

Answer 2

Invertebrates, also known as creepy crawlies, are important to gardens. The earthworm is responsible for a lot of the things that help make our soil good enough to grow healthy plants and provide us food. They help to "turn" the soil—bringing down organic matter from the top and mixing it with the soil below. Having worms around in your garden is a real good sign that you have a healthy soil. Some worms eat decaying plant matter but others eat small plants and animals in the soil.

The presence of a healthy population of various invertebrates (like beetles, butterflies, hoverflies and moths) is a good sign within a garden, suggesting that there is little (or ideally no) use of pesticides and that there are suitable food plants present.

Fun Facts about Worms
In one acre of land, there can be more than a million earthworms.
There are approximately 2,700 different kinds of earthworms.
Worms live where there is food, moisture, oxygen and a favorable temperature. If they don’t have these things, they go somewhere else.
Earthworms were brought to North America by the early European settlers in the 17th and 18th centuries. If earthworms existed in North America prior to this, they were probably wiped out during the last ice age, 10,000 to 50,000 years ago

Answer 3

the worms are good for your soil which in turn is good for your plants, so leave the worms alone and plant all you want!It is hard to say how big they will get not knowing what kind of worm you have. So just try to let them be cause if it werent for worms what other creature is going to dig around and breakdown old wood,food particles and other organic matter? humans lol yea right we got better things to do like plant flowers and veggies!

Answer 4

if they're brown worms, they will actually help your plants grow because they digest dead organic matter in the soil and their poop makes the nutrients more readily available for the plants. if they're white, they will probably much on your plants

Answer 5

well worms help flowers grow so just leave them be cause there just doing there job.

Answer 6

Absolutely Not! They are great for soil..your flowers will love them too! Dont be worried. :)

Answer 7

5 feet long

Answer 8

Worms are very dangerous.

They eat small children!!

BE CAREFUL!