{"id":106,"date":"2006-08-09T21:08:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-09T21:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/09\/land-planarians\/"},"modified":"2006-08-09T21:08:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-09T21:08:00","slug":"land-planarians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/09\/land-planarians\/","title":{"rendered":"Land Planarians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I was coming in to work and saw a worm crawling across the sidewalk. I am into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wormwoman.com\/acatalog\/vermicomposting.html\">vermiculture<\/a>, so I did a double-take when it didn&#8217;t have a typical worm shape. A closer inspection revealed a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.happydranch.com\/invertebrates\/landplanarian.html\">worm-farmer&#8217;s worst nightmare <\/a>&#8211; a <a href=\"http:\/\/georgiafaces.caes.uga.edu\/storypage.cfm?storyid=2757\">land planarian<\/a>! GROSS!<\/p>\n<p>This picture shows just how long this planarian is &#8211; I photographed my toe for scale cuz I didn&#8217;t have my tape measure with me.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block;cursor:hand;text-align:center;margin:0 auto 10px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/427\/1051\/320\/Planarian%20Toe.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a <strong>second <\/strong>planarian, worming his way down the sidwalk.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block;cursor:hand;text-align:center;margin:0 auto 10px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/427\/1051\/320\/Planarian.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s a good close up of his head. &#8220;Strangely, the planarian&#8217;s mouth isn&#8217;t on its head but halfway down its belly.&#8221;<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block;cursor:hand;text-align:center;margin:0 auto 10px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/427\/1051\/320\/Planarian%20Head.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>I found a third planarian inside the building, in a little dessicated pile of planarian slime.  Yucky!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;t have a typical worm shape. A closer inspection revealed a worm-farmer&#8217;s worst nightmare &#8211; a land planarian! GROSS! This picture shows just how long this planarian is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}