![]() ![]() More research is needed about soils and how the worms react in ecology for them to be designated bad - or good.įor now, “they aren’t even a regulated species,” says Robert Slocum, response and management coordinator at the DEC’s Bureau of Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health. Here’s the thing: the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation doesn’t consider hammerhead worms harmful. Engel also found her worm encounter cool, adding, “except for how harmful they are.” “I thought it was cool - a colony made up of millions of microbes that are found around us actually took care of it,” says King. Wearing gardening gloves, King picked up the pair and placed them into a bag of cut-up kombucha scobies - a culture of bacteria and yeast - she had intended to add to her soil. King also filmed her backyard specimen, which turned out to be two hammerheads. ![]() “I looked at it and was like, oh my gosh, I think it’s the worm.” ![]() “She was pointing at a really fat worm,” King says. A few days later, King was tending to her garden in Clintondale when her daughter called her over to look at a worm found under a piece of cardboard. It was very flat, too.”Įngel wouldn’t have known about hammerheads if not for a post warning people about them on a New Paltz community Facebook page in April. “Instead of being the normal pink/brown of earthworms, this one was a light yellow-beige and had a single dark brown stripe going down from head to toe,” she says. Engel identified the wiggly specimen as a hammerhead based on its color. ![]()
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