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Translucent small clear worm5/5/2023 Finally, and as always, if any of our readers have an idea what this might be, feel free to post a suggestion in the comments below. Identification: Small gnats flying around houseplants, tiny white worms in the soil, and/or black bugs crawling on top of the dirt. Or, if there is a university nearby, perhaps it runs something like an extension program that posts information about local worms, insects, and other bugs online, although maybe this sort of thing is only associated with U.S. She might consider asking some of the locals, who may have some idea of the worms that live in the area. (This is one reason worm identification is so hard – the number of different species is overwhelming in the extreme.) However, we don’t have a more precise answer to offer – we simply have no idea what exact species she might have found. Infection with parasitic worms occurs much more frequently than one might believe. There are over 25,000 known species, and it is estimated that the total number of species is around one million. Intestinal parasites, commonly called intestinal worms or parasitic worms, are unicellular or multi-cellular organisms that infect the gastrointestinal tract of both humans and other animals and live off their host. To say that our reader found a nematode, however, hardly limits the range of possible creatures she might have found. (It did cross our mind that our reader found a lugworm simply because these are relatively common worms that live on beaches, but it turns out that their distribution is limited almost exclusively to Europe and North America.) It might also be like a lugworm, which live under the sand in the shallow waters, which makes them marine worms, although this sand is exposed during low tide. Since the worm was found on a beach, it could be terrestrial or marine. Based on the shape of its body, it appears to be a nematode (that is, a roundworm), which can be found in virtually every place in the world. Nevertheless, you can see its skin is unusual and distinct – it almost looks like a gummy worm – and it certainly doesn’t look like, say, an earthworm, which aren’t translucent in the slightest.Īs we have implied by our use of “worm” so far, we do in fact think our reader is finding some sort of worm, although it is extremely difficult to say what kind she might be finding. As you can see, it is hard to judge just how see-through it is because what lies behind it (sand) is fairly uniform and undefined. Unfortunately, there isn’t really anything in the image to give it scale, but it appears to be a decent size, probably a few inches long.
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