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Bizarre 'thread creature' in garden
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Tue, May 27, 14 at 11:17
| He's something new to me. I was ready to harvest some spinach the other day, and I noticed something moving on top of one of the leaves. When I looked closely, I saw what looked like a thin piece of yellow thread moving around in circles. With a closer look, part of it was laying across a leaf, with the rest standing up in the air. The top was spiraling around about once per second, with the tip slightly curved, almost like the head of a cobra. When I put a grass seed stem down in the way of the tip, it stopped and seemed to wrap the tip slightly around the stem. I slowly lifted the grass stem, and the yellow 'thread' came up with it. Just recently on public television, there was a show on 'plant behavior' that showed various plants moving in ways that the scientist claimed were the same as animal behavior. Anyone seen anything like this? |
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RE: Bizarre 'thread creature' in garden
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| Sounds like some kind of worm or larva. |
RE: Bizarre 'thread creature' in garden
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| As far as I could see, there was no head, no tail, no segments - just a yellow thread. |
RE: Bizarre 'thread creature' in garden
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| Google Dodder to see if it matches what you've seen. They don't have 'animal behavior ' but very refined plant behavior. In your garden, they might 'like ' tomatoes the best. If you think that it is dodder, don't hesitate to get rid of every bit that you find. Don't let it go to seed. |
RE: Bizarre 'thread creature' in garden
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You are probably looking at horsehair worms. They are parasites on certain small insects. They are not a parasitic problem for we vertebrates. I have been running across them for years. From all that I have read, they seem to be harmless to humans. They do not parisitize plants either. I ignore them but someone more knowledgeable May have more information.
Victor |
RE: Bizarre 'thread creature' in garden
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| It looked like a skinny dodder, but it moved much faster. There's a video on Youtube that shows dodder moving with time-lapse video. This thing was circling at closer to a second per turn. |
RE: Bizarre 'thread creature' in garden
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| Gross. I saw a post on Facebook recently about this kind of parasite. I will link to it below. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Parasitic worm
RE: Bizarre 'thread creature' in garden
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| Not at all gross. Interesting! |
RE: Bizarre 'thread creature' in garden
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| Very cool! A micro cobra. |
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