if by the looks of your layers you have no mucky layers leave it be lots of food in your bedding to last months if need be best advice in a bin that looks like that is to leave them - w/o any ammonia/sulfur type aroma yer ok you look to have lots of room between bins? i'd be tempted to consolidate - just make sure you have decent drainage to help move excess moisture into your catchment bin best advice i ever received - we can kill worms with food faster than neglect. you look to have lots of fine bedding. keep sure to allow sufficient drainage. worms will mediate themselves as long as they have a decent place to run to. you have lots of good leaf material. i'm trying the same this spring with lots of leafy type bedding. best advice i know - leave them be. interesting tid bit though - pnsb's photo synthetic non-sulfur bacteria thrive on damp leaves. i only dabble in 'em'. something to consider though if a fan of soil biology. my bookmarks are so disorganised http://sites.google.com/site/windintheroses/em so much stuff online the last few years

I am fairly new to worms myself, but it sounds you're doing the right thing for the moisture. It probally just needs a little time. The critters a probally BSF. As long as the bin is outside, you'll probally have them. I pick them out and feed to my Chickens. They are not supposed to harm the worms, though they appear as if they would. Since the adult fly doesn't like being inside, if you move the bin back inside you might find after one cycle the larvae are gone.

I have three cats. Amy, the 16 yr old has been eating Hills Prescription Diet T/D Dental Health for most of her life. You buy it from the vet but the good thing is the last time her teeth needed to be cleaned was when she was two.They are in great shape. The two siblings who are now one and a half, do eat some of the older cats food and their dry food is Royal Canin Indoor Adult Cat. I tried Wellness dried cat food but they didnt like it. To be honest, since I got the younger ones, I think they all are eating both kinds.Which isnt a bad thing. We keep bowls of it out so they can nibble whenever they want. Also bowls of water. The three share one can of Wellness tinned food in the morning. The older cat is extremely fussy, she was a rescue cat from the SPCA and very loving but only to members of this family. She will hop on your lap for a quick cuddle but doesnt stay long and prefers to rest by your head (on the back of the couch) or by your side. It is a serious chore and fight to try to clip her nails, and even brushing her is hard though I can tell she likes it. She spooks easily and if strangers come to the house, she hides. She licks the gravy only from the wet food, leaving the rest. I have tried everything because she needs thyroid medication and it would be a lot easier to slip it into her wet food. I had to give her brother heart medication pills for years (he has since died) and he would practically open his mouth to pop the pill in. No way you can do that with her. We have been giving it to her using a gel on her inner ear because she tolerates that. The point I want to make is to give your cats both dry and wet food. They get stuck in their eating habits and trying to change them can be hard later on. If it ever comes time to give them medication, it would be easy to give it to them in the wet food, which they usually gobble up right away. Plus the extra moisture in the wet food is great for them. If you want to go away for a day or two, you know that they wont starve since they have lots of dry food. All of these cats are at a healthy weight and aren't gluttons. They eat when they are hungry. Check the ingredients of your cat food. I think it is better to pay a bit more for decent cat food because you will save vet bills in the end.

Weed and feed is regular fertilizer plus herbicide. You should get the same fertilizer effect from the product. The issue that most of us have with the combo product is that it is fairly rare to need to fertilize and use a blanket application of a weed killer at the same time. We prefer to get the appropriate product and use as needed, when needed. Fertilizer will promote weed growth just like it does with grass. If there are weeds germinating and not killed with the herbicide in the weed and feed, those weed will grow. Ideally you want to fertilize then hit the weeds later if/when they growth.