The worms continue to progress well. 2.5 months after we first started the worm bin, they're nearly ready to move up to the next working tray: the vermicast, as noted in the instructional booklet which came with our bin, is now at an inch above the inner plastic ribs of the current working tray. In order to prepare for the big migration and the addition of the new tray, we've stopped feeding them, in order to ensure that there's little to no unprocessed organic food still remaining in the bin.
Apparently, the worms have been eating well: they've been congregating en masse, a wriggling red bolus within the damp layer newspaper covers and laying eggs, sometimes termed cocoons, like mad. The egg capsules are ovoid, tapered to a point on two ends, and resemble orzo, only in miniature, a little smaller than grains of rice. See above graphic for a close-up.
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