Worms on the Move
We have tenants in our garden level home (in Carroll Gardens). Although there is a cement patio leading from their apartment to the yard, they’ve told us that worms have been travelling into their apartment overnight. When they wake up, there are dried, dead worms on the tile floor. Any insights as to why and…
We have tenants in our garden level home (in Carroll Gardens). Although there is a cement patio leading from their apartment to the yard, they’ve told us that worms have been travelling into their apartment overnight. When they wake up, there are dried, dead worms on the tile floor. Any insights as to why and what to do to stop them? Also, if this involves an exterminator, do we cover the cost as the landlords?
Right. We have a plague of locusts in our rent-stabilized tenant’s ground-floor unit. We decided tonight to plant a Black Flag fogger in there while everybody is asleep, thus taking care of both the tenants and the bugs! Will blog tomorrow with the results!
It’s not a completely black and white issue that landlords pay for exterminators. I had tenants bring in mealworm larvae once and the exterminator himself told me that it wasn’t a landlord expense.
We have the same problem in Fort Greene. There’s no water nearby, although the storm drain is around 3 feet from the door. My tenants said it happens when they leave the wood door open, locking only the screened gate. They also have many potted plants on the patio. I would agree about the exterminator, but I don’t think you can exterminate away worms coming in from outside. I plan to research a natural repellant that will keep them outside.
Landlords pay for exterminators.
I don’t know about the worms requiring an exterminator, but if they do, it is definitely your responsibility as a landlord to pay for it. Why wouldn’t it be?
It sounds like science fiction. Where can they get in? The only thing I can think of is that
heavy rain flushes earthworms out of the dirt and we had a very heavy rain this past week. Could you have worse problems, i.e. a place where water pools outside their back door which is getting inside worms included? I have lots of earthworms in the drain area outside of my kitchen door after a heavy rain. Traveling inside at night and dried up and dead in the morning sounds like pretty strange to me. Go down there and check it out. You are responsible for providing worm free housing.
It sounds like science fiction. Where can they get in? The only thing I can think of is that
heavy rain flushes earthworms out of the dirt and we had a very heavy rain this past week. Could you have worse problems, i.e. a place where water pools outside their back door which is getting inside worms included? I have lots of earthworms in the drain area outside of my kitchen door after a heavy rain. Traveling inside at night and dried up and dead in the morning sounds like pretty strange to me. Go down there and check it out. You are responsible for providing worm free housing.