This morning I was coming in to work and saw a worm crawling across the sidewalk. I am into vermiculture<\/a>, 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>– a land planarian<\/a>! GROSS!<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Here’s a second <\/strong>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.” 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 […]<\/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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106"}],"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}]}}
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I found a third planarian inside the building, in a little dessicated pile of planarian slime. Yucky!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"