TIMES RECORD • September 21, 2020
Topsham’s solid waste director is working to destroy an invasive species of earthworm called crazy worms that were discovered in a woodchip pile at the town’s transfer station early this summer. The worms have the potential to damage local forests. “Basically, they consume all of the (debris) on the forest floor so that it makes it basically a desert underneath there where things won’t grow and roots start to be exposed,” Maine Horticulturist Gary Fish said of the worms.