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Killer flatworm: new species hunts with puffer fish toxin.
Science News; 2/18/2006; Milius, Susan; 441 words
; A newly discovered saltwater flatworm, pale yellow and about the size of ... a defense against fish eating the flatworm, says Raphael Ritson-Williams of ... lives in water. These include other flatworms, frogs, North America's rough-skinned ...
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Duck deaths traced to exotic flatworm Parasite from Eastern Europe somehow infested Shawano Lake
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 11/23/1999; 637 words
; ... year, their answer came in the form of a flatworm thought to live only in Europe's Danube ... Further investigation revealed masses of flatworm parasites embedded in the walls of the ... south. It appeared that three types of flatworm parasite were killing the birds, and ...
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LETTERS:Why the flatworm is harmless at home
The Independent - London; 1/19/1995; Rod Blackshaw; 218 words
; ... asked question about the New Zealand flatworm. Our earthworms are important to the ... native region of the South Island, the flatworm is largely confined to sheltered areas ... and this may partially explain why the flatworm is not noted as a problem in New Zealand ...
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Lumbricid prey and potential herpetofaunal predators of the invading terrestrial flatworm bipalium adventitium (Turbellaria: Tricladida: Terricola)
The American Midland Naturalist; 4/1/1999; Ducey, Peter K; Messere, Michael; Lapoint, Kellie; Noce, Stacey; 787 words
; ... spread and ecological impact of this flatworm will be determined in part by the its ... species and two snake species to the flatworms. Bipalium advenhtium attacked and ate ... earthworms over 100 times their mass. However, flatworm predatory success was related to the ...
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CAPTAIN MOONLIGHT : Flatworms . . . flying faxes . . . and funny Yorksh iremen
The Independent - London; 1/15/1996; CHARLES NEVIN; 354 words
; ... triangulata, the fearsome New Zealand flatworm, six inches of raw, slimy killer. No ... aerating the earth will be lost: the flatworm does no digging, but merely loiters with ... stamp on them, hard. But first catch your flatworm. Losing no time, the Captain has spoken ...
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Mighty hermaphroditey.(hermaphroditic flatworms' mating practices)(Brief Article)
Discover; 6/1/1998; 393 words
; ... Starnberg, Germany, studies hermaphroditic flatworms. A lot of the literature on behavior and ... with separate sexes. Some hermaphroditic flatworms mate hypodermically--that is, a flatworm must jab its penis into its partner and inject ...
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Flatworm gene prevents an abundance of brains.
The Dallas Morning News (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service); 10/14/2002; 402 words
; Brains form in a flatworm's head and not its tail thanks ... throughout the worm's body. Flatworms, or planarians, reproduce by ... members of The Dallas Morning News. Write to them at: The Dallas Morning News, Communications Center, Dallas ... c) 2002, The Dallas Morning News. Visit The Dallas ...
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Flatworm gene prevents an abundance of brains.(The Dallas Morning News)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 10/14/2002; 402 words
; Brains form in a flatworm's head and not its tail thanks ... throughout the worm's body. Flatworms, or planarians, reproduce by ... members of The Dallas Morning News. Write to them at: The Dallas Morning News, Communications Center, Dallas ... c) 2002, The Dallas Morning News. Visit The Dallas ...
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Observations on feeding behavior by the terrestrial flatworm bipalium adventitium (platyhelminthes: Tricladida: Terricola) from Illinois
The American Midland Naturalist; 10/1/2002; Zaborski, Edmond R; 787 words
; ... adventitium Hyman, 1943, an exotic terrestrial flatworm that is predatory on earthworms, is ... feeding bouts. Prefeeding live mass of flatworms was a significant predictor of the mass gained by feeding flatworms, but prey mass was not, possibly because ...
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Whatever happened to the New Zealand flatworm?
The Independent - London; 11/9/1996; 452 words
; ... Artioposthia triangulator, or the New Zealand flatworm. Like shrivelled versions of creatures ... House of Lords, Lord Carter said the flatworms "go round in gangs and jump on earthworms ... to anyone encountering a New Zealand flatworm was: "to tread on it or pour something ...
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