Look What I Found...!
When I was harvesting my ringless honey mushrooms, on one mushroom, a hammerhead worm that has a long, flattened body and a broad head: it is a planarian, a free-living flatworm of the phylum Platyhelminthes (from the Greek “platy” meaning flat, and “helminth” meaning worm)., among the simplest animals comprised of 3 germ layers (ectoderm, mesoderm, and endoderm), yet possessing a complex anatomy of organ systems with striking molecular and physiological conservation to mammalian tissues
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Hammerhead Flatworm – 2020SEP25 – Charlotte, NC
Going out for my annual ringless honey mushroom harvest (cf. my albums 2018AUG23 & 2018AUG22), I saw something else.
Something definitely toxic, terrestrial, and considered terrifying...
...A hammerhead flatworm native to tropical and subtropical regions but that has become invasive worldwide.
Picking the mushroom cap with the hammerhead worm, I went inside to get my cell phone camera, which I could hold using one hand to capture images, keeping an eye on the other hand with the wriggly worm slithering over the mushroom cap
...and then I learned this about it after I went and put it back!
Hope you enjoy the 34% of 49 captures I took this drizzly day!
Look What I Found...!
When I was harvesting my ringless honey mushrooms, on one mushroom, a hammerhead worm that has a long, flattened body and a broad head: it is a planarian, a free-living flatworm of the phylum Platyhelminthes (from the Greek “platy” meaning flat, and “helminth” meaning worm)., among the simplest animals comprised of 3 germ layers (ectoderm, mesoderm, and endoderm), yet possessing a complex anatomy of organ systems with striking molecular and physiological conservation to mammalian tissues
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Hammerhead Flatworm – 2020SEP25 – Charlotte, NC
Going out for my annual ringless honey mushroom harvest (cf. my albums 2018AUG23 & 2018AUG22), I saw something else.
Something definitely toxic, terrestrial, and considered terrifying...
...A hammerhead flatworm native to tropical and subtropical regions but that has become invasive worldwide.
Picking the mushroom cap with the hammerhead worm, I went inside to get my cell phone camera, which I could hold using one hand to capture images, keeping an eye on the other hand with the wriggly worm slithering over the mushroom cap
...and then I learned this about it after I went and put it back!
Hope you enjoy the 34% of 49 captures I took this drizzly day!