Often you will see the March full moon called the 'Worm Moon'. It's true when it rained earlier this week, the frost had gone out of the ground enough that worms were crawling around on the cement slab by my front door. However 10,000 years ago when the Holocene Period started (that's right after the Ice Age glaciers left) there were no worms in the northern half of North America. Pretty hard for a worm to survive centuries of being covered by an ice sheet. The worms here now are all invaders - brought in by humans either on-purpose or as an accidental by-product. So I think I'll call the March moon by a First Nations name 'Sugar Moon'. At this latitude March often has warm days and cold freezing nights causing the sap to flow in the maple and birch trees. Could also call it the 'Sap Moon' but it's kinda close to April Fool's Day this year and I don't mean the name as a double entendre.
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