Payoff for early birds

Usage examples of worms.

Even though Gorps preferred to live on the garbage of the worms, it was safer to trail the shamblers and feed upon the leavings of their tenants.

Neither worms nor humans had been seen here as recently as three days ago.

Humans turned worms into blackened rubbery lumps, charred and smoking.

And then the eggs of all the larger creepy crawlies that fed on the little creepy crawlies would hatch, and so on, all the way up the food chain, until even the worms would come out and gorge themselves.

If something was going around killing worms, I wanted to make friends with it.

Therefore, the infestation has a built-in controlling mechanism for each and every species that we see, some kind of biological governor-so when the worms get to be too widespread, something else wakes up or kicks in.

If there were worms, there had to be worm nests within-oh, figure ten klicks to start with.

They slid silently through the smoldering night, all their eyes and ears and radars probing relentlessly for worms and gorps and all the other dreadful things that lurked in the darkness.

A mechanimal simulation of worms in metal form would be an intolerable horror.

I was halfway up the hill before I stopped, out of breath and so pissed I could have ripped apart a whole nest of worms with my bare hands.

We were locked in a dance of death with the worms, and they were just as enslaved by the music as we were.

But put the two species together, and you get worms, large and hungry and ferocious, and equipped with the sensory equipment to track their prey across kilometers of rugged terrain.

The worms might just as easily have been reacting to the bright worm-shape of the blimp that pulled us out.

The three worms chewed through all the connecting tangles and webs, pulling them apart and shredding them like confetti-and all the time, they screamed and roared and howled in madness.

We just found out that worms can be as nasty to each other as they are to humans.