Articles About Marine Worms

Limb Boring Worm

The limb boring worm tunnels into hard materials such as rocks and shells. While you may never witness a boring worm in action, you may notice their bodies sticking out of mollusk shells and rock cracks after they have tunneled through.

Christmas Tree Worms

Christmas tree worms (Spirobranchus giganteus) are found on coral reefs in tropical waters around the world. Christmas tree worms are not dangerous to humans and both male and female Christmas tree worms exist. They reproduce by casting their eggs and sperm directly into the water. The eggs are fertilized in the water then develop into [...]

Horsehair Worms: The World’s Thinnest Worms

Also called the “Gordian worm� the horsehair worm is a parasite that not only lives in crickets, but they also live inside of cockroaches, grasshoppers, and beetles.

Tube Worms

Tube worms, featuring reddish plumes, are oddities found from ocean floors to aquariums. The range of tube worm species is a continuing source of interest, research and simple curiosity.

Blood Worms

The term blood worms covers two categories: those that are insect larvae and those classified as true worms. Both are called bloodworms because they have a blood-like substance in their bodies. Many fish species find either type of blood worm simply irresistible!

Flat Worms

Flat worms, or flatworms, are simple organisms and were the first to develop a true worm shape. Of the many thousands of flatworm species, tapeworms and flukes are perhaps the most widely recognized.

Bristle Worms

There are nearly 10,000 species of bristle worm. Bristle worms can be tiny or large. Bristle worms can be benign or predatory. In fact, the bristle worm family is as diverse a worm family as one could hope to find.

Leeches – Medical Friend or Deadly Predator?

What do you know about leeches? Once valued, then reviled, the leech has never been completely understood. To some, it is a lifesaving tool of medicine; to others, leeches are deadly predators. Who’s right?

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