![]() In some parts of the world, they're called "shovel-headed garden worms." While the top is typically gray to greenish-brown with darker stripes, the underside is pale. Their semicircular heads look like little spatulas. They don't have circulatory, respiratory or skeletal systems. Land planarians are in a primitive group of worms called, aptly enough, flatworms. If the habitat is warm and moist enough, they can escape and get established in the wild. They're typically found near greenhouses. ![]() Originating in Asia, they've traveled around the world in nursery pots, arriving in North America a century ago. It's one of those things that, when you find it, you just have to find out what it is. ![]() From time to time, someone somewhere in Georgia turns over a rock or log and finds a grayish brown, flat worm with a head shaped like a half-moon. ![]()
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