WORM, a term used popularly to denote almost any kind of elongated, apparently limbless creature, from a lizard, like the blindworm, to the grub of an insect or an earthworm.
Worm Snake
Carphophis amoenus
Photo by RW Van Devender
Description: Worm snakes are small, shiny, brown snakes with pink or whitish bellies. Their light belly coloration extends partially up onto their sides.
WORM-EATING WARBLER
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Helmitheros vermivorus (Gmelin)
OTHER NAMES: Worm-eater, Worm-eating Swamp Warbler (Terres 1980).
Worm-eating warbler Helmitheros vermivorus
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Worm
Related Category: Zoology: Invertebrates
common name for various unrelated invertebrate animals with soft, often long and slender bodies.
Worm Snake (Carphophis amoenus)
No photo of the Worm Snake available.
The Worm Snake is from the order Squamata. Species from this order are amphisbaenians, lizards or snakes.
The Worm-eating Warbler is another poorly named bird, for they rarely if ever feed on earthworms, although they do feed heavily on caterpillars.
Worm-eating Warbler
(Helmitheros vermivorum)
Status: Vagrant.
Last recorded on site in 1991
The Patuxent web-site provides more general information about this species.
Worm Snake (Carphophis amoenus)
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THE WORM-EATING SWAMP-WARBLER.
[Worm-eating Warbler.]
HELINAIA VERMIVORA, Lath.
[Helmitheros vermivorus.] ...
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Butch
"We have found two on our porch in Vail, AZ (just SE of Tucson) in early August 2011."
kevin
"live i the south west of france and have quite a few i my garden" ...
Mallee Worm-lizard - profile
Scientific name: Aprasia inaurita
Conservation status in NSW: Endangered
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Eastern Worm Snake
Scientific Name: Carphophis amoenus
Size: 4 to 9 in. (18-22 cm) in length
PA Status: Species of special concern
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Midwest Worm Snake (Carphophis amoenus helenae)
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Worm Lizard
The Rhineuridae are a monotypic family of worm lizards created for the monotypic genus, Rhineura, which was created for the species Rhineura floridana ...
Worm-eating Warbler
Enigmatic songbirds, they often forage for insects in hanging dead leaves.
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Slow-worm showing eyelids.
Slow-worms are protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981.
It is an offence to kill, harm or injure them ...
Florida Worm Lizard photographs
The Florida Worm Lizard, Rhineura floridana, is found in dry upland areas throughout the peninsula south to Highlands County. Its scales arranged in rings make it look much like a large (11") pale or pink earthworm.
Eastern Worm Snake
(Carphophis amoenus amoenus)
DESCRIPTION: The worm snake truly resembles a worm. It has a length of 7.5-11 in. (19-28 cm), the head is plain brown above, the belly is pink, and the head is pointed.
The Eastern Worm Snake is a very small, glossy brown-to-black snake that resembles an earthworm. Also, the belly of this snake is bright pink to reddish-pink. The tail is short and it tapers to a sharp tip.
The Christmas tree worm, Spirobranchus giganteus, is a Christmas tree-shaped serpulid tube-dwelling worm with magnificent twin spirals of plumes used for feeding and respiration.
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Slow worm
Slow worms look superficially like snakes, but are actually legless lizards. One way to identify them is to see if they have eyelids. Lizards (and therefore slow worms) do while snakes are lidless.
Worm Snake
Carphophis amoenus (7-11", up to 13")
MA Status: "Threatened." Illegal to harass, kill, collect or possess.
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Worm-eating Warblers
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Yellow-rumped Warblers aka Myrtle Warbler, Audubon's Warbler (Dendroica coronata) ...
Slow worm (Anguis fragilis)
The slow worm, a legless lizard, was once thought to be a serpent and is often mistaken for a snake. There are certain features that... More 16 Images 4 Videos ...
Worm Diet
Worms are BIG eaters. Worms can consume their own body weight in soil and dead plants in one day. They also excrete equivalent to their own body weight daily in what is known as 'castings'.
Worm chickens once every three months and, if an occasional lice problem occurs, spray the inside of the chook shed with Coopex.
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Worm snakes range throughout the southern third of the state, particularly southeastern Ohio. These reptile versions of the nightcrawler are rarely encountered in the open, but can be discovered under large, flat slabs of rock, logs, and other debris.
Worm-eating Warbler
Spring Sighting Information: rare
Nest on or near Refuge? no
Yellow Warbler
Spring Sighting Information: common
Nest on or near Refuge? yes ...
Worm feeding - Received from Emily in Indiana.
Q: How are earthworms and amphitrites alike regarding what they eat but very different in how they obtain their food? Why have the amphitrite evolved its particular way of getting food?
The worm's first segment contains its mouth. As they burrow, they consume soil, extracting nutrients from decomposing organic matter like leaves and roots.
slow worm
Of the three snakes, the smooth snake is the rarest, being found only in heathland and woodland areas of southern England. The grass snake is our largest snake and is widespread in England and Wales.
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"The worm's gills, sticking out of the tube, are in water averaging 72° Fahrenheit [22°C], while its posterior end is parked in water that's 176° Fahrenheit [80°C]," Cary says. These readings, Cary says, are unprecedented.
Brain worm may limit moose populations in areas where white-tailed deer are common. Deer are not negatively impacted by the brainworm, the larval stage of which is passed in deer feces.
It has worm-like tongue, with a hard sharp tip that can be extended far beyond the end of the bill to spear an insect in a hole. The body of the tongue is covered with sticky spit to capture ants and other small insects.
Mopane worm on mopane tree, Botswana. The head of the caterpillar is to the right.
A peanut worm, a priapulid worm, and a spoon worm, Sipunculida (phylum), Priapulidae (family/famille), Echiura (phylum)
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Where are they found? Arctic Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Southern Ocean ...
The adult worm lives in the intestine of its host, normally rats but also sometimes dogs and humans. Hymenolepis diminuta passes through the required intermediate arthropod host as a juvenile.
Bait: Sea worm, clams or mussels, shrimp, polychaete worms, fish fry and bits of seaweed.
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The Earth Worm (Lumbricus terrestris) plays a key part in many ecosystems.
The Eastern Worm Snake (Carphophis a. amoenus) is a small fossorial species, spending most of it's time in burrows or under rocks and logs. Historic collection sites show that this species has a statewide range with the exception of 18 counties.
Great Lakes Worm Watch - Games and Activities
University of Minnesota - Duluth. Great Lakes Worm Watch.
Short-headed worm eel, Scolecenchelys breviceps
Scythrenchelys
Subfamily Ophichthinae ...
40. Eastern Worm Snake - Carphophis amoenus amoenus
Description: 7 ½ - 11" (19 - 28 cm). Looks like an earthworm. Flattened head and very small eyes. Belly is pink and translucent. Smooth scales. Anal plate divided.
Warning This worm can bite, so care in handling it is advised.
Habitat On protected mud- and sandflats, mixed with shell debris and gravel; from low-tide line to water 270' (82 m) deep.
Range Massachusetts to Florida and Louisiana.
Scale worm larva
Scales of a Brier Shark (0.03 mm scale)
Scales of a Brier Shark (0.1 mm scale)
Scalloped Hammerhead Illustration
Scalloped Hammerhead, Sphyrna lewini (Griffin & Smith, 1834)
Scalloped Ribbonfish with fins raised ...
Elk can suffer from many fungal, bacterial, and viral diseases, including a parasitic meningeal worm (Parelaphostrongylus tenuis) carried by white-tailed deer and an arterial worm carried by mule deer [21].
bristle worm (Hermodice carunculata)
brown button polyps (Palythoa sp.)
bubble coral (Plerogyra sinuosa)
bubbletip anemone (Entacmaea quadricolor)
burrowing tube anemone (Pachycerianthus fimbriatus)
button polyps (Zoanthus sp.) ...
Eastern Worm Snake (Carphophis amoenus) - Dare Co., NC, 3/24/02
Black Racer (Coluber constrictor) - Craven Co., NC 8/27/06
Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake (Crotalus adamanteus) - Glynn Co., GA (photo by Alan Johnston) ...
I have a worm snake Celuta amaena - black snake - two Heterodons - blue racer, water snakes & several others, several salamanders new to me, a lizard and a fine glass snake - lots of fish, etc. I did best among the snakes and lizards.
Frequently, the novice oyster shucker will encounter a golden-brown "worm" within the oyster's body. The initial reaction is to throw the oyster away, thinking it is parasitized.
There are many kinds of Centipedes, but they are all rather flattened worm-like animals. Their bodies are divided into segments. The first segment is a head with a pair of antennae and the rest of the segments each have a pair of legs attached.
eastern worm snake (Carphophis amoenus amoenus)
five-lined skink (Eumeces fasciatus)
glossy crayfish snake (Regina regida regida)
green anole (Anolis carolinensis)
green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) ...
Two incidents of strange behaviour seem noteworthy: Eric Dodge saw one come into his garden in Middleton on 16 August 1949 and offer a small green worm to his pet Cedar Waxwing, which eagerly accepted it.
I just gave him my last worm this morning. For the past 7 years I have been feeding one mock who I have known since he was first born by watching his nest. I buy cheap hot dogs..
The bird is afflicted with one complaint, probably caused by his vegetarian diet, at least I never saw it in any other: the complaint is tape worm, at least it looks like the same beast I have seen in bottles in quack doctors windows.
The brain, hearts, and breathing organs are located in the first few segments of the worm. It has five pairs of hearts! The rest of the inside of an earthworm is filled with the intestines, which digest its food.
Some glow worm species (Coleoptera) are millipede specialists and also assassin bugs specialize in millipedes. Millipedes are prey to a number of parasites, including some species of fungi, protozoa, nematodes, and worms.
Common pesticides, especially root-worm insecticides called organophosphate, wash off fields into streams and are particularly toxic to bass and others of the sunfish family.
 See also: Reptile, Snake, Burro, Shell, Lizard
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