Bipalium Kewense by jessesmom1987 ..... Ask Microbe Detectives
Date: 4/28/2008 9:32:50 PM ( 16 y ago)
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I found this in a search, with a good picture- just in a person's blog. I don't know where they got the information, but "eats snails and slugs"---Pioneer1 and I both found how plugged up our liver's were from flukes- (which come from snails and slugs), and she talks about the piles of snails/slugs she rakes up in her yard, she's over run with them...I know my flukes came from the Pacific Northwest, which is known for flukes in the livers of cattle/sheep--it was 12 years after leaving that area when I started killing the flukes that were plugging up my liver (8 months ago) I know from talking to Pioneer1, that she and I have both spent lots of time working in the garden/yard- plus eating the garden vegetables.
Interesting, "accidental infection"- I wonder? The one I didn't take the picture of, and flushed- had a definite flat, roundish head that looked like this.
"Shovel-headed garden worms are carnivorous and eat earthworms, insects, slugs and snails. Strangely they can reproduce two ways: 1) asexually through fission where the tail falls off and grows its own head, or 2) sexually with another shovel-headed worm. An even stranger fact is that these worms eat and poop out the same hole which is located in the mid-section of its underside; according to Tbear that makes them “potty mouths.” Supposedly these flat-head worms are harmless to humans, but they can decimate earthworm populations, and that’s not so good."
There's plenty more pictures if you search for "Biapalium Kewense", and hit "image". Don't know....
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