Tag: black stripes
Long Worms with Black Stripes and Flat Heads
A couple of days ago we received a question from a reader in Northern California who found a six-inch “worm-like being with black horizontal stripes and a flat, fan-shaped head.” By “fan-shaped head,” we are assuming our reader means the worm’s head is, first, clearly distinct from the rest of its long, striped body and, two, somewhat flat and spread out, perhaps in half-circle shape. If this is true, we have a pretty good idea what our reader found: a hammerhead worm (sometimes spelled “hammer head worm”).
Yellow Caterpillars with Black Stripes
A little while ago, we received a question from a reader asking about a worm he found near his garden. It is primarily yellow, but it has small black stripes on it too. The reader found this yellow creature with black stripes, which is shaped like small tube, on a tree. He sent a nice picture of the worm (which is in fact probably a caterpillar), which is below. He was wondering what kind of worm he found, and also if it was “aregetic” to humans. “Aregetic” is not a word, as far as we and Google can tell, so we suspect the reader might have meant something like “harmful” or “dangerous,” as this is the most common concern that readers have with worms (or caterpillars) they find. What is this worm or caterpillar, and is it dangerous?
