How do worms reproduce?
Worms are hermaphrodites meaning they have both male & female parts. It still takes 2 worms to mate, both worms produce a cocoon. Each cocoon or egg contains up to 20 babies (average 5 or 6).
If you cut a worm in half, what really happens?
If you cut a worm in half, you have a dead worm cut in half. Worms have 5 hearts located close to the head. If they are cut in half blood cannot get to rest of the body.[/I]
Ok, I just did a quick search on the subject; with vermicomposting worms, if you cut it in halves, you either get one shortened worm or one dead worm. Sometimes the back end of the worm will continue to live for a few hours, but it'll still die off later on.
I don't know, I'm still new to vermicomposting. Maybe the red wrigglers can still live when cut in halves, I just haven't tried it myself (and probably won't try it with my worms). ;-)
What I meant is, the head end of the worm can regenerate a new tail, but the tail end can't regenerate a head. Therefore, you will not get 2 worms if you cut it in 2 halves.