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Unknown garden friend or foe
Marilyn Walter
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Hi
Can anyone help identify what I have seen in my garden border. I thought I was looking at something a bird might have dropped (looked a little like entrails). Tickness the size of a man's finger, bright pink about 4inchs long. The thing that freaked me out was when I approach it it vanished below the soil with lightening speed (Tremors came to mind). Bit worried about what it might be. Help
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Sounds like an Australian Flatworm.
You have worms in your garden,lucky you.If it was here we would call it a dew worm
Bill
http://adlib.everysite.co.uk/adlib/defra/content.aspx?doc=11426&id=11431#ID
Info about New Zealand and Australian flatworms and what to do if you find one in your garden.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Pansyface our dew worms are big fat 8 to 12 inches long and are great for fishing.
Dovefromabove the best thing you can do with those flat worms is put them on a hook.