Bugs in the Tropics

toomanycats · Tue Nov 28, 2023 7:20 am

Tonray's Ghost wrote: ↑Mon Nov 27, 2023 11:14 pm Extremely Venomous centipede alert. Garden hazard.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C0LQLgYS ... BiNWFlZA==

About a month ago I found one of these invasive planarians living on my patio under a concrete pot that provides water for the outdoor cats. At first I thought it was a very young snake, possibly a copperhead, so I was very curious about what it actually was. After doing some research I learned that it was what is commonly known as an "arrowhead worm." They have the same neurotoxin as a puffer fish. For point of reference, I'm situated in North Carolina. Apparently they made their way here by way of infected plants and soil.

Not my pic, but one exactly like the arrowhead worm found on my patio.

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jhull54 · Tue Nov 28, 2023 3:56 pm

Those are invasive, nuisance creatures.

sabasgr68 · Tue Nov 28, 2023 4:18 pm

Tonray's Ghost wrote: ↑Tue Nov 28, 2023 6:07 am Handmaiden Moths doing it in the road..

Hopefully kids in the neighborhood were at home, watching tv or their celphones, and not watching things that are done when kids are sleeping LOL

sabasgr68 · Tue Nov 28, 2023 4:22 pm

Tonray's Ghost wrote: ↑Mon Nov 27, 2023 11:14 pm Extremely Venomous centipede alert. Garden hazard.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C0LQLgYS ... BiNWFlZA==

I´m sure you check your bed up and down before going to sleep, don´t you? the folds of the sheets are the perfect hiding place!

Tonray's Ghost · Tue Nov 28, 2023 6:49 pm

jhull54 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 28, 2023 3:56 pm Those are invasive, nuisance creatures.

I know but they do own the house next door so there's nothing I can do about it...oh wait we're not talking about the neighbors are we ?

Tonray's Ghost · Tue Nov 28, 2023 6:54 pm

sabasgr68 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 28, 2023 4:22 pm
Tonray's Ghost wrote: ↑Mon Nov 27, 2023 11:14 pm Extremely Venomous centipede alert. Garden hazard.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C0LQLgYS ... BiNWFlZA==
I´m sure you check your bed up and down before going to sleep, don´t you? the folds of the sheets are the perfect hiding place!

The geckos take care of that for me...lol

Tonray's Ghost · Tue Nov 28, 2023 8:06 pm

toomanycats wrote: ↑Tue Nov 28, 2023 7:20 am
Tonray's Ghost wrote: ↑Mon Nov 27, 2023 11:14 pm Extremely Venomous centipede alert. Garden hazard.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C0LQLgYS ... BiNWFlZA==
About a month ago I found one of these invasive planarians living on my patio under a concrete pot that provides water for the outdoor cats. At first I thought it was a very young snake, possibly a copperhead, so I was very curious about what it actually was. After doing some research I learned that it was what is commonly known as an "arrowhead worm." They have the same neurotoxin as a puffer fish. For point of reference, I'm situated in North Carolina. Apparently they made their way here by way of infected plants and soil.

Not my pic, but one exactly like the arrowhead worm found on my patio.
800px-Bipalium_kewense_sighted_in_Austin,_Texas_02.JPG

That looks like one of those intestinal parasites from eating certain seafood/freshwater fish not properly prepped