Article: Florida's 'worm grunters' collect bait worms by inadvertently imitating mole sounds.

Article: Florida's 'Worm Grunters' Collect Bait Worms by ...
Ascribe Higher Education News Service;  October 14, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... Charles Darwin. Worm grunting involves going ... speculation, worm grunters don't really ... areas where the worm grunters practice their ... holes left by worm grunters. Once that ... practice of worm-grunting. Apalachicola ...

Article: Fla. Town Celebrates Worm Grunters
AP Online;  April 13, 2002 ;     700+ words ...00-00-0000 Dateline: SOPCHOPPY, Fla. As professional grunters, Gary and Audrey Revell get up before sunrise and drive 25 miles over dirt roads deep into the heart of the Apalachicola National Forest to catch worms. As the sunlight barely pokes through the pine trees, they climb out of a Ford pickup

WORM GRUNTING
AP Images;  June 12, 2009 ;     245 words ...File - Mabel works her worm grunting tool in an effort to harvest earthworms that she will sell as fish bait in this Oct. 11, 2006 file photo taken in Hosford, Fla ...

Worm Grunting
AP Images;  June 12, 2009 ;     240 words ...Gary Revell, right, and his wife Audrey harvest earth worms in the woods of the Apalachicola National Forest, Friday, May 15, 2009, in Samatra, Fla. Revell drives a "stob" in the ground and rubs it with a piece of flat iron to create vibrations which cause the worms to surface where they are picked

Article: Moles, not magic, makes worm 'grunting' work
AP Online;  June 12, 2009 ;     700+ words ...Gary Revell gets up every morning before sunrise, heads into the woods and grunts. Not because it's so early. It's the term for coaxing worms from the ground by the hundreds to be scooped up and plopped in a tin can until he can sell them for fishing bait. He pounds a two-foot wooden stob or stake

Article: Moles, not magic, make worm 'grunting' work
AP Online;  June 12, 2009 ;     700+ words ...Gary Revell gets up every morning before sunrise, heads into the woods and grunts. Not because it's so early. It's the term for coaxing worms from the ground by the hundreds to be scooped up and plopped in a tin can until he can sell them for fishing bait. He pounds a two-foot wooden stob or stake

Article: Grunting for worms.
Science News for Kids;  October 29, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... Sopchoppy, Fla. to study worm grunting. In April he attended ... Catania with their worm-grunting expertise. [ILLUSTRATION ... long suspected that worm grunting works because it mimics ... supported the theory that worm grunters trick worms into thinking ...