Mollusc-eating Hammerhead Worm
Bipalium vagum
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This bug has been reportedly found in the following regions:
Mobile, Alabama
Ozark, Alabama
El Dorado, Arkansas
Citrus Heights, California
Fallbrook, California(5 reports)
Brooksville, Florida
Gainesville, Florida
Jacksonville, Florida
Melbourne, Florida
Naples, Florida
Augusta, Georgia
Griffin, Georgia
Schofield Barracks, Hawaii
Wheeler AFB, Hawaii
Franklin, Louisiana
Blue Eye, Missouri
Wake Forest, North Carolina
Seneca, South Carolina
Swansea, South Carolina
Dallas, Texas
Lyle, Washington
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ErzsebetF
I read the University of Florida report about this worm and I am not encouraged. It appears that these imports are probably getting around in potted plants we buy at our garden shops! which are carried from the greenhouses. Gee, thanks Burpee! and/or Bonnie Bell!
I think the next time I find one, I will put it in a jar of alcohol. I do not want to encourage this worm to grow and get into my vegetable garden; or my herb beds.
I think I like my friendly earthworms better!
wormsci
http://faculty.kutztown.edu/butler/ducey2007.pdf
If that doesn't work, the article was published in the Southeastern Naturalist 6:449-460 in 2007.
alfu
Creation Wiki:
http://creationwiki.org/File:Land_planarian.jpg
University of Florida Dept of Entomology:
http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/misc/land_planarians.htm
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/pdffiles/IN/IN20600.pdf
Wikipedia:
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