Arrowhead worm

[Rick]

Found this thing in my outdoor box turtle enclosure. It is an arrowhead worm. It is a type of land planaria.

 

[revmdn]

Never seen one of those before. Reminds me of a hammerhead shark, but a worm. What's it's deal?

 

[Rick]

Never seen one of those before. Reminds me of a hammerhead shark, but a worm. What's it's deal?

Introduced species. Supposed to have come in on plants. Eats earthworms.

 

[revmdn]

Weird, and interesting.

 

[hibiscusmile]

Discusting! h34r:

 

[Katnapper]

Very interesting. I just spent over an hour learning about flatworms and planaria worms... Thanks for posting.

 

[Emile.Wilson]

Very interesting. I just spent over an hour learning about flatworms and planaria worms... Thanks for posting.

i spent a month learning about them, and i have a final exam on biology tomorrow! why am i on here, off to studying.

 

[Katnapper]

i spent a month learning about them, and i have a final exam on biology tomorrow! why am i on here, off to studying.

Egads... well good luck on your exam, Emile! I'm going to play like a planaria worm and slide out of here myself....

 

[PhilinYuma]

Very interesting. I just spent over an hour learning about flatworms and planaria worms... Thanks for posting.

If you found those fun, Katt, wait until you get to the Ascaria (round worms)! One of those, Ascaria suum, makes it's own morphine! Yum!

 

[ABbuggin]

Nice find. I've only seen a few flat worms myself.

 

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[SIZE=14pt]Wow cool rick what are you going to do with that one, are you going to feed them?[/SIZE]

 

[Rick]

[SIZE=14pt]Wow cool rick what are you going to do with that one, are you going to feed them?[/SIZE]

When I read that they eat earthworms I killed it. But then I read it also eats slugs so I regret kiling it now. There were two of them and the other one escaped when I went in to get the camera.

 

[superfreak]

ooh theyre cool. we had a couple in the classroom when i was studying inverts at uni. but we called them shovel heads.

 

[yeatzee]

Yeah, when I was younger me and my friends used to call them shovel-headed worms or shovel heads

 

[Zephyr]

I find these occasionally.

I either leave them or smash them, depending on what food source they're near. (Smash them if there's only worms, leave them if those pesky introduced leopard slugs are afoot)

 

[beckyl92]

how come you killed it?

wow never seen/heard of them before!

 

[Rick]

how come you killed it?wow never seen/heard of them before!

I explained the reason above.

 

[cloud jaguar]

They found one of those in the sandbox of my son's nursery school - they were concerned it might crawl up a kids butt.

 

[Rick]

They found one of those in the sandbox of my son's nursery school - they were concerned it might crawl up a kids butt.

Lol. When I first saw it I didn't see the head and I thought it was also some sort of parasitic worm. Last year my male box turtle had tapeworms and it was found in his cage.