#hammerhead worms

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Hammerhead worms are an invasive species largely known to originate from Asia, but are likely now spreading within the U.S. by hiding in the damp soil of potted plants.

PHOTOGRAPH BY MATT BERTONE

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[drafty-castle]

Hammerhead worms, my beloathed.

Little invasive bastards eating all the earthworms and needing to be killed with fire or drowned in acid to kill because cutting one into a hundred pieces just gets you one hundred worms.

my grandpa was a good man. and it really wasnt his fault - recreationally lying to kids is a proud family tradition - but he told me, once, that cutting a worm in half resulted in two worms.

i think he said it so i'd be more morally okay with fishing? i actually dont remember the context.

point was, he told me this, and he understimated (by a very large margin) how much i liked worms. i was a worm boy. very wormy. and after hearing that, i went home, and i dug through the garden, flipped over every rock, did everything i could to gather as many worms as i could, and then i uh.

i cut them all in half. every worm i could find. all of them. with scissors.

i then took this pile of split worms, and i put them in a box with a bit of lettuce and some water and stuff and went to bed expecting to double my worms overnight. i have math autism, so i had a vague understanding that if i did this just a few times in a row, i would eventually have a completely unreasonable amount of worms.

i was very excited to become this plane's worm emperor.

(i think i was...six?)

anyway, i did not become the inheritor of the worm crown. i instead woke up to a box of dead worms and cried. a lot. i got diagnosed with panic attacks as a teenager, but i think i had them as a kid, i just had no idea what they were. i was kind of processing that a.) i had killed what i had assumed was every single worm in my yard, and thus would have no more worms, and b). i was going to like, worm hell.

(six year babylon spent a lot of time worrying about god.)

so i kind of freaked out, and i climbed a tree, because god can only smite you if you're touching the ground (?) and i sat up there mostly inconsolable until my mom came out and asked, hey, what's up? what happened?

so i explained to her that i had killed all of the worms, forever, and was also Damned, and she took me to the compost pile, and we dug for all of five seconds and found like twenty more worms.

the compost pile was full of worms.

and she told me that a). there were more worms, and we could put them back under rocks and stuff and recolonize our yard and b). that one day, i would die, and i would go to heaven, and i would be able to talk to the worms, and i would be able to tell them all that i was very sorry, and that i killed them on accident out of excessive Love, and that they would forgive me, because worms have six hearts and no malice.

at that point, i think i was sixty percent tear-snot by weight, and i had no choice but to gather enough worms that i could hug them. which my mom helped with. and then after that she helped me put some worms back under each rock.

and for my epilogue: i spent a significant portion of my childhood in trees. and for many years after, even when my mom didnt know i was watching, i would catch her giving the space under the rocks a light spritz with the hose. not because she loved worms.

but because she loved me.

[onenicebugperday]

Hammerhead flatworm, Diversibipalium sp., Geoplanidae

Photographed in Singapore by budak

This species is native to Singapore where it was found and is NOT the invasive hammerhead flatworm found in part of the US. Comments about killing it will get you blocked.

[barksbog]

Oh Wow Hammerhead Worms!!

finally you can grab one of these without risking being poisoned! and they are so soft and floppy! just toss them around! slap them! gently pet them!

adopt a little guys fresh from my bog

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[vyscera]

the garden i tend at work is getting overrun with snails so i thought about a world where we acquired a domesticated a "working dog" breed of hammerhead worm (they eat snails and slugs and worms) that is also. a puppy. Bred to clear vegetation of common slimy garden pests. click under readmore if u wanna see the worm theyre based off of i think theyre really cute

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[tyguy275]

SAY IT WITH ME

HAMMERHEAD WORMS ARE BAD

KILL THEM ON SIGHT, THEY ARE INVASIVE AND DECIMATE NATIVE EARTHWORM POPULATIONS

What are your favourite animals that sound like the most absolute medieval bestiary beasts, but are actually 100% just fucking real? I'll start, with the hammerhead worm:

'tis a beast that is shaped like a hammer, but which moves like a worm. Wherever it is an invasive species, it must be killed on sight, as it will eat all normal worms and ruin the soil. They eat each other also, if nothing else is available. Do not cut one in half, as it only becomes two hammerhead worms. Every particle of it must be destroyed, lest it regrows itself from the remnants. To do so, kill it with fire or dissolve it in salt and vinegar.

[ehrenenglish]

Invertober 8, Hammerhead Worm

[dinoserious]

invertober day 8, hammerhead worm. two colorways!

[i-give-worms]

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a little hammerhead worm made using a lino scrap from another print

made in 2023

[saturnsmelliott]

fat fuck friday and flat fuck friday have been condensed into fat fuck flatworm friday, thank you for your understanding

[shpepyao]

Hammerhead worm goobers They're adoptables actually, you can find info on my TH here!

[gaystropod]

What if guy was worm?

[solarpunkani]

Here's my attempt

We should make dumb memes about invasive species to help spread awareness of them

[tumble-bug]

Toxic Terrestrial worm learning to swim in your backyard pool

[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.