This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The invasive terrestrial planarian Bipalium kewense is found worldwide in tropical and warm temperate zones. The rate of spread and ecological ...

Bipalium kewense was recorded for the first time in Madagascar, in the capital city of Antananarivo, according to a study. Photo by Brent Ninaber via Unsplash In Madagascar’s densely populated capital ...

An exotic, terrestrial turbellarian Bipalium adventitium Hyman (Tricladida, Bipalidae) was found in Syracuse, N.Y. This animal preys upon earthworms (Lumbricus terrestris, Bimastos tenuis), crud ...

Wildlife officials in California have warned residents not to chop up two invasive worms, as doing so will create new individuals from the severed parts. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife ...

Between 2020 and 2022, researchers Ji-Hun Song and Fernando Carbayo scoured the forests day and night in search of land planarians - odd worms defined by their "hammer-shaped, half-moon, or ...

When Jennifer Serfass heard her children yell, “Mom, look at this worm,” she expected an ordinary nightcrawler. Rather than the squiggly body of a common earthworm, this one had a bulbous mushroom ...

Texas is home to some of the creepiest, crawliest, and otherwise oddest animals on the planet. We introduce you to them in What in Tarnation?!, an occasional series. The aptly named invertebrate is ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – When Jennifer Serfass heard her children yell, “Mom, look at this worm,” she expected an ordinary native earthworm. But this one had a bulbous mushroom head. “It was really long,” ...