Now it makes sense- Ascaris Suum

I have been bewildered in trying to figure out what kind of big roundworms I've killed- for sure not mucoid plaque--mucoid doesn't have skin that comes seperate from it.

This information makes sense in that the Ascaris Suum (pork ascaris)can get up to 50 cm long, and they have been put in the same classification as the Ascaris Lumbriciodes- which are actually different.

I got another 2 ft one in gearing up for the full moon this last time- the same exact thing as what the others have been- long, thick as one of my fingers- brown, looks like strands of rope twisted together- skin seperate. Haven't been colon cleansing or taking psyllium. Humaworm described large ascaris the same way, brown- twisted rope strands. And I agree with what he says too--they don't come looking the same out of you as you see them pictured on the internet! That's what makes it harder for people to try to identify too.


http://webs.lander.edu/rsfox/invertebrates/ascaris.html


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