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Poisonous Hammerhead Worm Found In Texas After Flooding
Outkick ^ | August 20, 2024 | Amber Harding

Posted on 08/20/2024 6:11:03 PM PDT by Red Badger

Yes, a poisonous hammerhead worm.

This is the stuff of nightmares, y'all. Not only is it disgusting, toxic and more than a foot long, it's also nearly impossible to kill — because if you cut it in half, it just regenerates itself! Actually, it turns out that all flatworms have the ability to become two different, genetically identical flatworms if they are cut in half. And that's terrifying.

Also, why are we calling this a worm? I think once it reaches a foot long, it should officially be classified as a snake. Then again, those things in Dune are like 300 feet long, and they still call those worms. So what do I know?

VIDEO AT LINK...........

Anyway, these invasive hammerhead mini-snakes have been appearing on driveways, patios and sidewalks thanks to their underground homes being flooded by Hurricane Beryl and other storms that have been battering Southeast Texas this year.

Underground homes. You catch that? So it's only a matter of time before those Dune worms make their way to the surface, too. Or those things from Tremors. Are they the same species?

The good news is, these hammerhead worms aren't going to kill you or swallow you alive. But they might give you a nasty itch (again, not the same kind of nasty itch Sexyy Red has).

According to the Texas Invasive Species Institute (TISI), these little guys "secrete chemicals through their skin to make themselves noxious to predators, and aid in the digestion of earthworms. These chemicals can cause skin irritation on humans if they hold the flatworm, and domestic mammals if they consume the flatworm. Furthermore, many flatworms can carry parasitic nematodes within them."

I was trying to figure out why I know the word "nematode," and then it occurred to me…

Man, what a throwback. Now, excuse me while I sit here and watch that entire episode.

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TOPICS: Gardening; Health/Medicine; Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: hammerhead; hammerheadworm; nematode; texas; worm
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1 posted on 08/20/2024 6:11:03 PM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Oh, they’re talking about a worm, not a Democrat!
Oops.


2 posted on 08/20/2024 6:12:42 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: lee martell

I’d never even heard of a Hammerhead worm!...............


3 posted on 08/20/2024 6:13:17 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

It would take RAID, or an entire can of unscented Right Guard deodorant to kill it. Hopefully, some hungry Buzzard will enjoy the taste.


4 posted on 08/20/2024 6:17:46 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: Red Badger

When I see “y’all” it tells me the author is stupid or trying to garner approval from unknown segment of society. Annoying zeitgeist, started with the feds and ivermectint.


5 posted on 08/20/2024 6:19:17 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: Red Badger

Poisonous Hammerhead Worms! Now doesn’t that just SCREAM “endangered species.”


6 posted on 08/20/2024 6:20:55 PM PDT by TChad
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To: Red Badger

Texas is as big as most European countries. It has coastal regions and desert

Does anyone care to freaking tell us where this things are?


7 posted on 08/20/2024 6:24:03 PM PDT by stanne
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To: Red Badger

Nor did I.


8 posted on 08/20/2024 6:24:22 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Red Badger

“Poisonous”. Good grief.


9 posted on 08/20/2024 6:25:24 PM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: lee martell

Well this Texan girl has stopped the car in the driveway backing out having spotted a snake, tiptoed to pick up the axe from the toolbox and severed that thing into tow with one shot. I do not way to wonder where it is in my house.

So. Ya…

Someone please tell us where these are


10 posted on 08/20/2024 6:27:01 PM PDT by stanne
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To: Red Badger

LOL

Never thought I’d hear a reference to Sexxy Red on FreeRepublic.

She popped up on a station mix once and whoa!

Stripper soundtrack.


11 posted on 08/20/2024 6:29:42 PM PDT by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh (there will come a day when FR rejects articles from the NYT, et al. as "Commie trash, no thank you")
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To: Red Badger

They are better known as planarians. They really aren’t a “worm”. They are very cool though. We get an invasive species here that I’ve seen up to three feet long.


12 posted on 08/20/2024 6:30:13 PM PDT by lefty-lie-spy (Stay Metal)
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To: Red Badger

Sounds like a scify script


13 posted on 08/20/2024 6:30:29 PM PDT by patriot torch (2Tim Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead according to my gospel)
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To: stanne

SOUTHEAST TEXAS..................


14 posted on 08/20/2024 6:30:48 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

Lemme guess... COME FROM CHI-NA?


15 posted on 08/20/2024 6:31:33 PM PDT by Captainpaintball (America needs a Conservative DICTATOR if it hopes to survive. )
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To: Captainpaintball

Nope, they live here.................


16 posted on 08/20/2024 6:33:09 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Fungi

Y’all is a perfectly good Southern dialectical word...................


17 posted on 08/20/2024 6:34:26 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: lee martell

We’ve had these in Alabama for a couple years now, supposedly got here from Asia. They’re horrible for a garden because they eat earthworms. They have no natural predators here in the US. I threw one, about 5-6” long, in a plastic 5 gallon bucket and at shimmied right up the side and out of it. The best you can do is keep a tub or jar with vinegar and salt and chuck them in it when you find them.


18 posted on 08/20/2024 6:37:42 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack
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To: Red Badger

I wonder if the prices have come down on those consumer flamethrowers that hit the market a couple of years ago?


19 posted on 08/20/2024 6:39:46 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Red Badger

They’re only a problem if they have lasers.


20 posted on 08/20/2024 6:40:01 PM PDT by xoxox
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