Aussie Finch Forum

Weird looking worm my first thoughts were a hammerhead worm

Its dead nasty looking bugger IMO

at the risk of getting a barrage of comments back in a slighly negative vien why is it when we dont know what something is we kill it. Why not ask what it is, and find out what it lives on,if it is a concern it could be relocated or maybe left alone to feed on the detritis with our back yards. I have carpets and childrens pythons come by the aviary, whip snakes, buthcer birds, mynas etc etc. they get moved on when in large numbers or try there hand at finch hunting, not killed because I dont know what they are. Mice and rats are the only thing taken care of. Cats - well the cattle dogs sort them out so I dont have to worry aboutthat task.

Sadly its human nature ..we kill what we fear and yes you are right it shouldn't be that way .

Tend to put "stange" insects into jars and then try to identify them. Maybe that's how I wound up with a Biologist for a daughter.
LML

I find myself agreeing with Trilobite. There are many free-living planarian worms which while they are technically flat-worms they are not parasitic like liver-fluke but are preditory. I suspect our smashed friend was one of the latter.