Many people feed them to their frogs. You should however be aware that these worms are usually farmed outside, or are farmed in large bins indoors with dirt from outside and that probably every individual earthworm is full of nematode eggs. Your frogs ingest these eggs with the worm and inside your frog they hatch. Luckily these nematode worms have an indirect life cycle and once the worms mature inside the frog they are passed out in the feces and cannot reinfect your frog. However, if you keep feeding your frog these worms you keep infecting it. Also, they can accumulate in your terrarium substrate after they are released in the feces. Are these worms harmful or fatal to your frog? No, they are not. In the end it comes down to an ethics thing. If you are ok with your frog constantly being infected by harmless internal parasites then feed them, if you think that is bad practice and nasty in general then track down a more reliable source of earthworms, or farm your own.

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