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I have never seen these before. They look like earthworms, but they crawl along a slime web thing under a log and do not burrow in the soil. They hate the light.
The sheen and segmentation is what made me think worm... I think another picture or a description of their locomotive features would help.Its defiantly not a earthworm. Looks to me like a larva of some sort of moth or something. I saw a show on the discovery channel about a creature like the one in the photo that lives in caves and uses bioluminescence to attract its prey. It uses the sticky slime trails to capture moths and other small insects in caves. Other than that cant tell you exactly what it is:?.
You read my mind lolIts defiantly not a earthworm. Looks to me like a larva of some sort of moth or something. I saw a show on the discovery channel about a creature like the one in the photo that lives in caves and uses bioluminescence to attract its prey. It uses the sticky slime trails to capture moths and other small insects in caves. Other than that cant tell you exactly what it is:?.
Earthworms use copious amounts of slime to facilitate movement through the soil. If they were not burrowing some other factor is in play, eg. if the soil substrate is very wet they will have surface so as to breathe...in any case the segmented ringed body indicates definately an annellidIt is an Annelid aka earthworm
its on planet earth caves one! there neat!Hasnt anyone seen those glowing midge larvae that hang from cave ceilings?
Agreed. Also, the presence of the clitellum (though not always heavily pronounced) denotes some species of earthworm.It is an Annelid aka earthworm
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Earthworms use copious amounts of slime to facilitate movement through the soil. If they were not burrowing some other factor is in play, eg. if the soil substrate is very wet they will have surface so as to breathe...in any case the segmented ringed body indicates definately an annellid
Haha I believe you're right. I thought a saw a clitellum but maybe not. I do, however, think I see larval mandibles when I zoom in on the picture.They're Brachyceran fly larvae...the primitive flies have a head capsule.
I believe we have a winner.The question...are those true segments? fly larvae often have crenulations of the individual segments. Brachypterous larvae have 11-12 true segments.