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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This hammerhead worm sounds nasty.
Stopped reading right there.
Damnable worms!
How did climate change fuel this worm.
Honestly, how stupid does it have to get?
If a mere worm can do that, why can't we?
Lost me right there.
What this is, is China’s war against us.
I bet you can kill these things with Ivermectin.
Simply clean by blowing out the guts with a water pick and smoke over a nice mesquite fire for 8 hours.
Excellent with Salsa!
Oh, what twaddle! It’s not climate change that is causing this. It is The Rising Tide of Racism in Amerikka!
“Stopped reading right there.”
As did I. Is rain ever just rain?
We need to smuggle loads of destructive insects and animals all around China.
No. True worms are not insect larvae, but the latter are sometimes called that.
This hammerhead worm sounds nasty.
Exotic species are generally nasty, primarily because nothing eats them. They cause a lot more extinctions than people do directly.
Me as well.
Makes me doubt the entire article.
The central part of the state has been mostly dry, with the exception of remnants of a west coast storm the caused July flooding. A weather pattern that doesn’t support the worm needing humid, tropical weather.
The article is about worms - but they had to throw that in there.
I had the same reaction. For those who did the same, know that the only way to kill these critters is to freeze them for 48 hours.
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