This morning I was coming in to work and saw a worm crawling across the sidewalk. I am into vermiculture, so I did a double-take when it didn’t have a typical worm shape. A closer inspection revealed a worm-farmer’s worst nightmare – a land planarian! GROSS!
This picture shows just how long this planarian is – I photographed my toe for scale cuz I didn’t have my tape measure with me.
Here’s a second planarian, worming his way down the sidwalk.
And here’s a good close up of his head. “Strangely, the planarian’s mouth isn’t on its head but halfway down its belly.”
I found a third planarian inside the building, in a little dessicated pile of planarian slime. Yucky!
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