European nightcrawlers - really red worms?

[LadySharon]

The genus of the "nightcrawler" is LUMBRICUS. That's the nice thing about scientific names... they are the same in any language!

yep. that's why my concern. I have tarantulas as well - and when I bought my first last year I accessed a bbs on them and quickly found out most people perfer you to use the latin names not the common ones - as a pet store could sell several different speices under the same common name... so in this case just because something is called commonly a "nightcrawler" doesn't mean we are talking the same thing....

an apple and an orange are both fruit for example.

- Sharon

[LadySharon]

thanks for the replys - I think I'll try that forum on yahoo too... I hope it isn't a "group" though... i've joined stuff like that in the past and posted once.

I'd rather be able to post as a guest.