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SydneyChick
PostPosted: Tue Feb 11, 2014 10:34 am 
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What is THIS?? Any ideas?

It moved like a leech or a worm.... GROSS GROSS GROSS! :hiding :shoc


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Looks like it might be a Flatworm.

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I have them in the garden too. I think they're harmless- the chooks eat them.
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URRRRKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK! That is horrible! I have never seen one and don't want to! Do we have any horrified emoticons?? :aaargh: :aaargh: (try that one!)

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Found this http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2010/02/05/australian-flatworm/ that seems to pin it as an Australian Flatworm that feeds on snails...

If I had known that - I wouldn't have salted it.

But I was running late for work and couldn't risk a massive leech or strange Australian parasite running free in the garden...

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