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Title: what is this worm?
Post by: OliveOil on May 09, 2006, 21:14:57

When i lift my bin bags up, i find an array of creepy crawlies.

Lob worms
Woodlice....

and...

a fairly hard cased worm, with definite segments, reddish to dark brown in coluor, 1 - 1.5 in long, and rolls inself into a coil when you try to pick it up... what is it?

Title: Re: what is this worm?
Post by: redimp on May 09, 2006, 23:24:08

Hopefully not one of these:

(http://flatworm.csl.gov.uk/images/juve.jpg)

(http://flatworm.csl.gov.uk/images/cocoons.jpg)

(http://flatworm.csl.gov.uk/images/coin.jpg)

New Zealand Flat Worm. Doesn't really sound like it but if it is:

http://flatworm.csl.gov.uk/gotone.htm (http://flatworm.csl.gov.uk/gotone.htm)

Title: Re: what is this worm?
Post by: OliveOil on May 10, 2006, 09:24:28

nope def not one of those... its got a hardish shell. Could they be meal worms?

Title: Re: what is this worm?
Post by: GREENWIZARD on May 10, 2006, 11:43:24

wireworms?
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y31/GREENWIZARD/24.jpg)

Title: Re: what is this worm?
Post by: saddad on May 10, 2006, 21:34:54

Dunno, squish first ask questions later... we get some sort of grasshopper on the over grown plots and I had to learn to recognise the pupated form before I squished them all!
;D

Title: Re: what is this worm?
Post by: OliveOil on May 11, 2006, 08:50:25

I'll try get a photo today - so we can all stop speculating LOL

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