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Worms in Canada

A reader wrote to us about an interesting cycle of insects and worms that he has observed at his house in Canada (London, Ontario, more precisely). Over the summer, there were lots of fairly large insects in his house – they were about one to two inches (about 2.5 to 5 centimeters) long from wing tip to wing tip. The following spring, the reader found tons of worms on his driveway. The worms were black and brown (or a blackish, brownish mix, technically) and they wouldn’t go away, even after our reader tried to blow them away with a leaf blower. The worms, which are about an inch to an inch and a half in length, come out in great numbers after it rains. What are the worms that our reader is finding? Are the worms specific to Canada? Is there any connection between the summer insects and the spring worms?