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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.
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.
Many flatworms are considered invasive pests, since they eat native earthworms, snails and other soil organisms. And like other worms, they can reproduce asexually − even being split in half − ...
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There’s an invasive species of worm making itself known in Texas once again—the hammerhead flatworm.These worms are toxic, hard to kill. A Foot-Long Worm From Hell Is Invading Texas—and It ...
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
Bipalium vagum is a relatively small species of Bipalium, measuring about 25 mm (0.98 in) in length.The head varies from entirely black to dark brown with two black patches separated by a lighter ground color.