We counted about a dozen planarians, ranging in size from baby to 8 inches. What was most intriguing was the behavior of the worms we saw on the sidewalk as well.<\/p>\n
Here is a close-up of one of the worms we saw. It doesn’t look like a normal worm to me. It doesn’t seem to have a clitellum. Do you know what species it is? What is going on here?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" More planarians on the sidewalk when I got to work today!! We counted about a dozen planarians, ranging in size from baby to 8 inches. What was most intriguing was the behavior of the worms we saw on the sidewalk as well. Here is a close-up of one of the worms we saw. It doesn’t […]<\/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":[164],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108"}],"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=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nThere were about a half dozen worms that were crawling away<\/strong> from the grass towards the parking lot. They were moving in a very strange manner! They seemed to have a singular focus of getting the hell away from the grass. The best way I can describe their motion and behavior is to say that they were writhing<\/em>. Several of them managed to pop up off the ground as they twisted and turned their little bodies.
\nI captured a little bit of bad video<\/a> of them crawling away, but did not get the full-featured writhing on camera.<\/p>\n