I say no.

Worms thrive on neglect. the less you disturb them, the better. As for how much they are eating, go by how fast the food is disappearing. Equalizing the bins serves no purpose.

BTW, dividing the space for a while until the population grows is probably a good idea.

Leaving them alone is probably one of the hardest things to do when you first get your worms, but it really is what is best for them.

Boy, howdy! Saying that leaving them alone is hard to do is an understatement!

I guess I was also hoping that, if I knew how many worms were in there, I'd have answered my next-to-last burning question and could leave them alone for a bit. My other thing is I'd like to see a cocoon -- that would satisfy my "are they healthly and content" concern. Just like knowing how many are in there now vs when I a harvest would give me a measurement of bin health.

I'm sure neglect will eventually come easy. In some ways, I wish I'd left them in the container they came in until more of the bedding was eaten -- they were easier to ignore when they were in the jug and hidden from my husband.

i received my first flock of worms from a friend, they arrived in a gallon ziplock bag of composted manure....

i started a bin with bedding and food and emptied the bag o'worms into a separate bin with some soil to cut the composted manure (that stuff holds water like crazy) the manure was great because it is uniform so it was easy to spot worms and cocoons and baby worms... i picked through the bin of worms tossing the large worms and eggs into the food bin...
gave me a good idea of what i was starting with.
i kept the two bins side by side and every few weeks i'd go back through the manure bin picking out worms and "upgrading" them to the food bin.

leaving them alone to do their thing is the best way to go (worms don't have prozac or valium to deal with stress) but it is good to check up on them and see how they're doing...

i recently picked up a "worm factory" and after setting that up, i got the chance to dig through the food bin i had set up.... the worms were doing well.... nice n fat and active... the bottom of the bin was a bit swampy smelling, though not to the point of being offensive (my wife would've let me know, believe me ;) )

so i moved the manure bin contents to the bottom tray of the WF, then used the contents of the food bin to fill out that first tray and part of a second....

so what's my advice after all this?

check up on them to make sure conditions aren't going anaerobic on you (swampy) if you really are curious and can't wait 'til harvest, pick up a commercial tray system and do the counting and whatnot during the transfer... since you'd have to move them anyway...

bins inside a bin.... be careful about air flow, gotta let these little guys breathe, and of course, you want aerobic bacteria growing in your bin, not their smelly cousins...