The message
from Jane Ransom contains these words:

In article , Janet Baraclough.
. writes
With loads of mulch, manure and no chemicals, the place is
now heaving with earthworms. (NZF's appear to have been successfully
eradicated).

What a success story
What did you do to eradicate the NZFs?

Search and destroy :-) They lurk on surface soil, usually in groups,
always underneath some kind of shelter like pots or stacked turf, and
don't wriggle away like earthworms do in the same situation, so it's not
hard to find their hiding place and evict them. Horrible looking things
they are, a bit like leeches only much less lively. I just crush the
buggers to a smear on concrete, with my boot.

Janet

The message
from (Julie) contains these words:

Jane Ransom wrote in message :
Just check you don't have any New Zealand flatworm first, or any worms
you introduce will be consumed by them anyway

I found a flat worm today. I did not know what it was until I saw this
post and looked it up. It was definately a flat worm and I tossed it
back into the garden before I knew what it was. (Tried to go back and
find it...but like a needle in a haystack is the task:-( )Now I will
be on the look out for them.

My question is this.....are we supposed to report the finding of a
N.Z. Flatworm to anyone in particular.(snip)
I am in Northern Ireland.

Northern Ireland has the highest UK population of them iirc. They like
a mild but damp climate.

I reported mine to someone in Dundee, can't remember the details but
found on the web. I'm not sure of he was collating numbers for the whole
UK or just Scotland.

Also from a website...be careful how you move them because their
(copious) slime is supposedly harmful to human skin (they slather it
over their prey to predigest it, yuk).

Janet

In article , Janet Baraclough.
.. writes
Horrible looking things
they are, a bit like leeches only much less lively.

Hey! Don't be rude about leeches! Most of them are quite handsome.

--
Kay Easton

Edward's earthworm page:
http://www.scarboro.demon.co.uk/edward/index.htm

The message
from (Julie) contains these words:

Jane Ransom wrote in message :
Just check you don't have any New Zealand flatworm first, or any worms
you introduce will be consumed by them anyway

I found a flat worm today. I did not know what it was until I saw this
post and looked it up. It was definately a flat worm and I tossed it
back into the garden before I knew what it was. (Tried to go back and
find it...but like a needle in a haystack is the task:-( )Now I will
be on the look out for them.

My question is this.....are we supposed to report the finding of a
N.Z. Flatworm to anyone in particular.(snip)
I am in Northern Ireland.

Northern Ireland has the highest UK population of them iirc. They like
a mild but damp climate.

I reported mine to someone in Dundee, can't remember the details but
found on the web. I'm not sure of he was collating numbers for the whole
UK or just Scotland.

Also from a website...be careful how you move them because their
(copious) slime is supposedly harmful to human skin (they slather it
over their prey to predigest it, yuk).

Janet

The message
from (Julie) contains these words:

Jane Ransom wrote in message :
Just check you don't have any New Zealand flatworm first, or any worms
you introduce will be consumed by them anyway

I found a flat worm today. I did not know what it was until I saw this
post and looked it up. It was definately a flat worm and I tossed it
back into the garden before I knew what it was. (Tried to go back and
find it...but like a needle in a haystack is the task:-( )Now I will
be on the look out for them.

My question is this.....are we supposed to report the finding of a
N.Z. Flatworm to anyone in particular.(snip)
I am in Northern Ireland.

Northern Ireland has the highest UK population of them iirc. They like
a mild but damp climate.

I reported mine to someone in Dundee, can't remember the details but
found on the web. I'm not sure of he was collating numbers for the whole
UK or just Scotland.

Also from a website...be careful how you move them because their
(copious) slime is supposedly harmful to human skin (they slather it
over their prey to predigest it, yuk).

Janet

The message
from Jane Ransom contains these words:

In article , Janet Baraclough.
. writes
With loads of mulch, manure and no chemicals, the place is
now heaving with earthworms. (NZF's appear to have been successfully
eradicated).

What a success story
What did you do to eradicate the NZFs?

Search and destroy :-) They lurk on surface soil, usually in groups,
always underneath some kind of shelter like pots or stacked turf, and
don't wriggle away like earthworms do in the same situation, so it's not
hard to find their hiding place and evict them. Horrible looking things
they are, a bit like leeches only much less lively. I just crush the
buggers to a smear on concrete, with my boot.

Janet

In article , Janet Baraclough.
.. writes
Horrible looking things
they are, a bit like leeches only much less lively.

Hey! Don't be rude about leeches! Most of them are quite handsome.

--
Kay Easton

Edward's earthworm page:
http://www.scarboro.demon.co.uk/edward/index.htm

The message
from (Julie) contains these words:

Jane Ransom wrote in message :
Just check you don't have any New Zealand flatworm first, or any worms
you introduce will be consumed by them anyway

I found a flat worm today. I did not know what it was until I saw this
post and looked it up. It was definately a flat worm and I tossed it
back into the garden before I knew what it was. (Tried to go back and
find it...but like a needle in a haystack is the task:-( )Now I will
be on the look out for them.

My question is this.....are we supposed to report the finding of a
N.Z. Flatworm to anyone in particular.(snip)
I am in Northern Ireland.

Northern Ireland has the highest UK population of them iirc. They like
a mild but damp climate.

I reported mine to someone in Dundee, can't remember the details but
found on the web. I'm not sure of he was collating numbers for the whole
UK or just Scotland.

Also from a website...be careful how you move them because their
(copious) slime is supposedly harmful to human skin (they slather it
over their prey to predigest it, yuk).

Janet

The message
from Kay Easton contains these words:

In article , Janet Baraclough.
. writes
Horrible looking things
they are, a bit like leeches only much less lively.

Hey! Don't be rude about leeches! Most of them are quite handsome.

Not the ones I've kissed. Or was that frogs? Hard to tell, underwater.

Janet

The message
from Kay Easton contains these words:

In article , Janet Baraclough.
. writes
Horrible looking things
they are, a bit like leeches only much less lively.

Hey! Don't be rude about leeches! Most of them are quite handsome.

Not the ones I've kissed. Or was that frogs? Hard to tell, underwater.

Janet

On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 23:11:51 +0100, Janet Baraclough..
wrote:

The message
from Kay Easton contains these words:

In article , Janet Baraclough.
. writes
Horrible looking things
they are, a bit like leeches only much less lively.

Hey! Don't be rude about leeches! Most of them are quite handsome.

Not the ones I've kissed. Or was that frogs? Hard to tell, underwater.

Perhaps they were trolls?

On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 23:11:51 +0100, Janet Baraclough..
wrote:

The message
from Kay Easton contains these words:

In article , Janet Baraclough.
. writes
Horrible looking things
they are, a bit like leeches only much less lively.

Hey! Don't be rude about leeches! Most of them are quite handsome.

Not the ones I've kissed. Or was that frogs? Hard to tell, underwater.

Perhaps they were trolls?

The message
from Kay Easton contains these words:

In article , Janet Baraclough.
. writes
Horrible looking things
they are, a bit like leeches only much less lively.

Hey! Don't be rude about leeches! Most of them are quite handsome.

Not the ones I've kissed. Or was that frogs? Hard to tell, underwater.

Janet

On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 23:11:51 +0100, Janet Baraclough..
wrote:

The message
from Kay Easton contains these words:

In article , Janet Baraclough.
. writes
Horrible looking things
they are, a bit like leeches only much less lively.

Hey! Don't be rude about leeches! Most of them are quite handsome.

Not the ones I've kissed. Or was that frogs? Hard to tell, underwater.

Perhaps they were trolls?

The message
from Kay Easton contains these words:

In article , Janet Baraclough.
. writes
Horrible looking things
they are, a bit like leeches only much less lively.

Hey! Don't be rude about leeches! Most of them are quite handsome.

Not the ones I've kissed. Or was that frogs? Hard to tell, underwater.

Janet