When every other tree/plant in your little yard gets squished over to one side to make sure the plumerias have plenty of room to stretch out and sun. Bill, when you figure out how to get rid of your neighbor's tree (without getting busted) let me know. My neighbor has a huge ficus that is blocking the sun and dropping some real annoying seed things all over my yard. Vivian

I used to find tons of red wigglers under leaves that I had piled over garden beds when I lived in a place that had winter lows of 25 or 30 below zero. I don't know how they did it, some form of hibernation I suppose, and they were under leaves and snow and not exposed directly to the air temps, but they were fine. In my current climate, we have lows in the teens, sometimes low teens and my bin is fine in my unheated garage. They aren't nearly as active, so be careful not to overfeed, but I think your bin would do ok outdoors though I'd suggest giving them some protection if you can.

Dwalt, When you add the second tray all the worms don't migrate in mass. In fact you are lucky if they move at all for a while. And then it only seems to be the adventurous ones or some of the big ones. All the little worms stay behind. The baby's seem to stay put not crawling more than a inch or so from their hatching place until they are around an inch long. When i was harvesting my stacking bins the bottom bin seemed to have just as many worms by volume as the top bin. Only the worms were all under an inch and a half long. Most of them were under an inch, all hatchlings from egg cases left behind by the older worms. Picking all those baby's out is what finally convinced me to go with a flow through. I sound like a flow through expert. I am not I'm a newbie at it. Only just having set it up. I was harvesting early because stacking Rubbermaid type bins put a lot of weight on the bottom bin squishing the compost out the bottom holes. Not a problem with the worm factory or cows. They have little stops that keep it from happening. After i started the flow through up i came accost a blog that told of a wormer that drilled holes large enough to insert corks into the bottom of the bins that is supposed to work like the stops on the WF and COWS. Ah well.

That's true - I guess I figured because mine came from an outdoor garden in Florida (many years ago) I thought they'd be alright being thrown out into a warmer, sunnier (my garden window does get a lot of sun - I've even had some aloe get a little sunburned, but it still doesn't compare to outdoor sun) environment than in my house. Pretty ignorant of me, but hey! You live and you learn. I'll definitely inspect the roots and see what's up! I normally do all of my gardening in my kitchen, but if the plant is full out infested with these suckers I don't think it's good idea to be doing it in my kitchen haha. I could take them outside and work on them once the weather warms up one last time before winter hits (fall weather has it's ups and downs here). I don't think it's ants - ant season is over here, and when my garden window has ants, you can see them. But a good suggestion!! I appreciate it.