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Bipalium species are predatory.Some species prey on earthworms, while others may also feed on mollusks. [10] [11] These flatworms can track their prey. [12]When captured, earthworms begin to react to the attack, but the flatworm uses the muscles in its body, as well as sticky secretions, to attach itself to the earthworm to prevent escape.
Bipalium kewense, also known as the shovel-headed garden worm, is a species of large predatory land planarian with a cosmopolitan distribution. [1] [2] It is sometimes referred to as a "hammerhead flatworm" due to its half-moon-shaped head, but this name is also used to refer to other species in the subfamily Bipaliinae.
While flatworms can look quite alien and scary looking, they aren't dangerous to people or pets. "Just don't eat them in large quantities since some flatworm species can carry toxins and parasites ...
So, they’re not super dangerous to people or animals. But they are still invasive, and the kind of invasive that can really damage an ecosystem.According to the conservation group Buglife, these ...
The parasites, which can cause intestinal and eye problems, are now widespread in a nonnative snail in area lakes and reservoirs. The snails are also spreading across the U.S.
Free-living flatworms are mostly predators, and live in water or in shaded, humid terrestrial environments, such as leaf litter. Cestodes (tapeworms) and trematodes (flukes) have complex life-cycles, with mature stages that live as parasites in the digestive systems of fish or land vertebrates , and intermediate stages that infest secondary hosts.
Bipalium nobile is a very long planarian, reaching up to 1 m (3.3 ft) in length. As in other species of Bipalium, the head is expanded, being fan-shaped in live animals.. The dorsal color is pale yellowish brown with five blackish brown longitudinal strip
A parasite called Heterobilharzia americana, a flatworm commonly referred to as liver fluke, was behind the illness of the 11 dogs. The parasite normally makes its home in Texas and in the South.