UK Daily Mail
Ginormous toxic hammerhead worms – which can grow up to 15 inches – have invaded DC backyards as the slithering creatures shock residents and have scientists warning about getting too close.
Americans are being advised to avoid touching the foot-long flatworms, which feast on slugs, snails and earthworms by paralyzing them with the same potent neurotoxin found in deadly puffer fish.
Also known as spade-headed garden worms, the slippery specimens excrete a septic slime, which can be harmful to humans if ingested. More
Well, DC does seem to be the natural environment for slimy, toxic worms though they do already have competition what with the political variety there.
In other words…Congress is in session?
They want us eating bugs and worms. Someone needs to serve them at the next WH awards ceremony.
Wow, perfect description of DC right down to swallowing their slime!!!!
The woman in the caption from That 70s Show reminds me of kneepads Harris. Can’t stand either one.
I don’t know how the worms can stand such disgusting company.
These slimy creatures could number about 87 thousand.
“A swamp-colored variety of the worm is seen slithering up the window of a home on Frazier Road in Warrenton, just west of DC”
..good camouflage for that location…
I’m surprised these things are showing up in appreciable numbers in an ecosystem where they have so many well established competitors.
They warned people to not eat them?
Darn! I was hoping the WEF would publish some recipes for hammerhead worms sauted in garlic and butter.
Is this news?
Invest in salt. Lots and lots of salt.
Use it the same way you would to an invasion of snails and slugs in your garden.
Sprinkle “liberally” (see what I did there?) over the critter, then watch it foam and writhe.
Is there a vaccine yet?
Silly me, I was about to launch into a tirade about term limits and then found you were talking about literal worms.
“DC Invaded by Slimy Toxic Worms”
Since the Civil War – or The War Between the States.
The invasion of the Slimy Toxic Worms really expanded during WWI and became permanent during WWII.
mortem tyrannis
izlamo delenda est …
Where is the Anonymous who wonders about the taste of Orange dick?
Surely there’s a Trump angle here.
I predict brisk salt sales around D.C.! Those are gross.