Thanks for the responses. Yes, that is damage from one worm - I found it on the fruit - but that fruit is only marble-sized at this point. I suspected OFM myself, but noted these differences: 1) My worm is quite a bright green color - all web pix I've seen show OFM larva cream to pale yellow. 2) I didn't see the three protruding pairs of black legs on any picture of the OFM larva. 3) Web info says the OFM larva bores into the fruit and leaves only a small hole outside. My worm eats away at the outside only. This thing is only nuisance level at this point - hoping it doesn't get out of hand. I'm sure the BT spray wouldn't hurt. Anybody see OFM larva look/act like this? Or other ideas?

I hate to be the basis for any decisions about the effectiveness of Triazicide, so I want to follow up. Most of my peach trees seem to have good, pest-free peaches on them so I think overall the Triazicide was effective for me. However, on my one old, large tree, it clearly failed me. I know it may not make sense that it would work on some trees and not others, but its a fact. It is true that I probably didn't get good coverage on the top half of my one large peach tree. However, I did spray the bottom half to the point of run-off every 10 days and peaches on that lower half all do have OFM. Thanks to the comments above, I'm now more sure than ever that my pests are in fact OFM. Anyway, overall I'm pretty happy with the progress I've made this year thanks to all of you. Not only because it looks like I'm going to have quite a few peaches on my 3-year old trees, but I've also noticed another major change. Last year, the tips of all my peach trees kept dying all the time....I understand that was probably OFM too? This year I haven't had a single tip die on any tree except the big old one. I just wanted to clarify before Olpea and others develop major doubts about Triazicide using my experience as the basis for that decision (though apparently there have been others). It seems to have failed me on one tree but done its job on others. If you accept my assertion that I really did get good, constant coverage of the lower half of the one tree that it failed me on, then I know it makes little sense...but its true!

All earthworms are beneficial to the soil. Unfortunately some introduced species are a bit too efficient in their activities and too prolific in their populations and create imbalances in the organic matter of some Northeastern native forests and woodlands, to their detriment. But in the home garden, all worms are beneficial and indicate a healthy amount of organic matter in the soil. I can contemplate all sorts of good reasons to screen compost and there is really no reason the presence of worms should deter you. The small ones will fall through the screening and larger ones can be tossed back into the pile or relocated to planting beds. It's all good :-) Here is a link that might be useful: earthworms

Just bumping this up to add a plea - any other information here? I don't mind pill bugs in general. They are good for the bin, they don't squick me out when I open the bin or anything. But I have THOUSANDS of them. THOUSANDS and THOUSANDS. And they don't stay IN the bin. My bin is in a guest room closet. For the last few months everytime I go into the room for something there are a few hundred dead pill bugs all over the floor of the entire room. Yuck! My boyfriend is moving in here with me in a week. I have got to get the damn bug population down, or the worms are going to get banashed outside and they will never live through a South Florida summer. Can anyone assist? More water? Less water? More acid? Less acid? Anything to just get the population down to managable numbers? Help? --Lisa