#Flatworm

[crevicedwelling]

hammerhead flatworms (Bipaliinae) are in my estimation among the most beautiful terrestrial animals, often sporting bright colors and striking patterns that advertise their toxicity.

bipaliines feed on either worms or land gastropods, tracking the slime trails of prey with their highly sensitive spade- or crescent-shaped head plate.

Southeast Asia is a hotspot for bipaliine diversity, and at least six species can be found in Singapore, all of which I managed to encounter this summer!

[fray]

if a worm was a pretty they/them

support a transsexual black artist here or here | @fray

[red-pencil]

Happy #AniMonday ! While on a Blue Sky studios project, this test proposed how our mythical creature Astaria would look while flying. We wanted something visually fun and different, so we went with a flatworm.

[onenicebugperday]

Unidentified blue land planarian, Geoplanidae

Photographed in Ecuador by pandabadger

[linseedling]

Critters NOT drawn to scale (though I wish tardigrades were mole-sized so I could hold them in my hands like a hamster)

[bleedingspiral]

Bug dividers || free to use (credit is appreciated)

[cuttledreams-bugs]

Invertober Days 13 through 16!

- Devastating Grasshopper ~

- Blue Glaucus ~

-Owlfly ~

-Fuchia Flatworm ~

Invertober is put together by fossilforager! Prompt List

[lowpolyanimals]

Flatworm from Cell to Singularity

[dinoserious]

invertober day 8, hammerhead worm. two colorways!

[leafkidsblog]

image description. an MSpaint drawing of a hammerhead flatworm, Diversibipalium engeli, curled up in a shape that vaguely resembles a heart. the flatworm has a red half moon shaped head with a rounded black rectangle in the center, and a black body with six or seven squiggly white stripes. above the flatworm is a quote from Tumblr user crevicedwelling that reads: "I tell them that they're beautiful and that they're a problem I can't solve by destroying them". end ID.

"I... tell them they're beautiful and that they're a problem I can't solve by destroying them" — @crevicedwelling (x)(x)

[crevicedwelling]

the infamous bullet ant (Paraponera clavata) of the Neotropics here has fallen prey to a rhynchodemine flatworm, her legendarily powerful sting brandished uselessly in death. a scavenging fly takes its tax of the meal from her thorax as the sated worm moves on.

…the face of a killer.

[chilirasbora]

Divided flatworm | Pseudoceros dimidiatus

X, X, X, X

[cannibalcaprine]

hmmm. jermaphrodite

[onenicebugperday]

Hammerhead flatworm, Diversibipalium sp., Bipaliinae

Photographed in Sarawak, Malaysia by Bernard Dupont

Last photo shows two individuals mating

*Note: This species is NOT INVASIVE in its home range where it was photographed. Comments about killing it will get you blocked.

[cupozo]

Worm eater worm

[toadalled]

A custom "worm" design.

Here's a land planarian! Land planarians are commonly known as hammerhead worms despite not being annelids (segmented worms). While some species are invasive, they're a fascinating family of creatures that come in a stunning variety of colors/ patterns!

Please keep any comments about killing land planarians to yourself. Invasive species aren't invasive everywhere and can be appreciated and valued in their native range.