![]() Morgan goes on to say that they “ lie like twisted roots or loose-coiled wire, on the bottom of brooks, springs, ponds, watering troughs, and rain-barrels.” Horsehair worms tend to occur in clusters Pennak, in Fresh-water Invertebrates of the United States, describes them as “a single writhing mass in the springtime.” They look a bit like the snags used to appear on the BugLady’s old casting reel. They’re wiry and cylindrical, with little tapering at either end (unlike the nearby Nematodes).Īdults live in damp-to-wet habitats from the tropics to the cold-temperate regions. They have a hard, chitinous covering that, says Ann Haven Morgan in her Field Book of Ponds and Streams, stiffens them so that “ in their slow coiling and uncoiling they seem to be so much living wire.” They come in opaque yellow to tan to brown to black colors. They’re skinny and long this individual was maybe five inches long, but some species grow to one or two feet long. Horsehair worms are in the Phylum Nematomorpha (which is different from the Nematode worms). It’s a good thing that the common usage of the term “bug” is so inexact, because once again we are stretching its boundaries to/past the limits. ![]() This is a somewhat rewritten rerun from 2009. ![]() ![]() Note: Most links leave to external sites. ![]()
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