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Toxic 'Hammerhead Worm' Is Invading Texas, Triggering Warnings
Science Net via Yahoo ^
| 11/10/25
| Tessa Koumoundouros
Posted on 11/11/2025 7:23:26 AM PST by DallasBiff
"Don't kill it, don't squish it, don't cut it up," Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller warned residents via NBC as a toxic flatworm spreads across North Texas.
While this invasive species has been in the US for years, the state's fatally heavy rains, fueled by climate change, are enabling the hammerhead flatworm (Bipalium kewense) to thrive and spread.
This brown and black-striped, flattened land planarian with a distinctive half-moon-shaped head can reach lengths of up to 40 cm (15.7 inches). Like many flatworm species, it can regenerate a whole new worm from slices of itself.
Decapitating the worm will only help it multiply.
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Local News; Outdoors; Pets/Animals; Science; Weather; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: climatechange; climatechangehoax; fakenews; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; hammerheadflatworm; texas; worms
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To: dforest
> How did climate change fuel this worm.
I miss the old days when everything was blamed on the Illuminati.
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posted on
11/11/2025 7:51:23 AM PST
by
Leaning Right
(It's morning in America. Again.)
To: DallasBiff
Bet it can’t survive a roasting from a hand-held flame thrower.
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posted on
11/11/2025 7:53:24 AM PST
by
LastDayz
(A Blunt and Brazen Texan. I Will Not Be Assimilated.)
To: DallasBiff
We find them at our place in DFW after it rains. I usually put them in a ziplock bag and toss in the trash. They ugly!
To: kiryandil
Never forget:
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posted on
11/11/2025 7:55:41 AM PST
by
Flag_This
(They're lying.)
To: Allegra
45
posted on
11/11/2025 7:56:18 AM PST
by
Destroyer Sailor
(Revenge is a dish best served cold. )
To: Flag_This
46
posted on
11/11/2025 7:58:22 AM PST
by
kiryandil
(No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
To: DallasBiff
How bout salting the whole thing?
To: DallasBiff
Can’t read a scientist anymore that doesn’t INFECT a STORY with CLIMATE CHANGE CRAP.
To: DallasBiff
“Decapitating the worm will only help it multiply.”
Isn’t this the story with some Muslims too ?
To: econjack
Tossing in a fireplace or wood stove won’t do it?
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posted on
11/11/2025 8:08:41 AM PST
by
citizen
(A transgender male competing against women may be male, but he's no man.)
To: dfwgator
”fueled by climate change”It’s the climate fairy again.
Maybe Texas was mean to Gaia.
51
posted on
11/11/2025 8:13:52 AM PST
by
UnwashedPeasant
(The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism. )
To: ConservativeMind
Southeast Asia
These are Viet Cong worms. Kill them before they multiply!
52
posted on
11/11/2025 8:17:57 AM PST
by
tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
To: DallasBiff
“Toxic ‘Hammerhead Worm’ Is Invading Texas, Triggering Warnings”
Where are the usual apocalyptos headlines they put down our throat in the previous years, such as “Alien Invasive Species Hammerhead Worm is Contributing to the Diversity of Texas” ?
53
posted on
11/11/2025 8:24:24 AM PST
by
miniTAX
To: citizen
Sure ... just don’t touch it with your bare hands.
54
posted on
11/11/2025 8:33:19 AM PST
by
al_c
(Democrats: Party over Common Sense)
To: DallasBiff
fueled by climate change Had to get that in, didn't they?
To add to their arsenal of "crises" caused by non-existent human-derived climate changed.
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posted on
11/11/2025 8:35:18 AM PST
by
Bon of Babble
(You Say You Want a Revolution?)
To: dfwgator; All
“...The recent spread is one of many examples of climate change driving the proliferation of invasive species...”
Right! 😠🙄
Brought here by you know who!!
56
posted on
11/11/2025 8:38:13 AM PST
by
SMARTY
(In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
To: Carry_Okie
“Exotic species are generally nasty, primarily because nothing eats them. They cause a lot more extinctions than people do directly.”
Oh no, not this extinction canard again. Extinction driven by exotic species happens only on small islands. On continents, you’ll have hard time, despite the constant alarmist propaganda by the lying media, to find a single case, let alone many cases of it. Except maybe the case of the invasive Muslims.
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posted on
11/11/2025 8:39:14 AM PST
by
miniTAX
To: DallasBiff
...
the state's fatally heavy rains, fueled by climate change...I stop reading right there.
Use them for catfish bait, maybe?
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posted on
11/11/2025 8:40:33 AM PST
by
JimRed
(TERM LIMITS, NOW! Finish the damned WALL! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH! )
To: al_c
Find what are their natural predators.
59
posted on
11/11/2025 8:45:24 AM PST
by
citizen
(A transgender male competing against women may be male, but he's no man.)
To: DallasBiff
I bet sprinkling it with salt would kill the buggers
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