New Zealand flatworms

[Aberdeenplotter]

For the avoidance of doubt, I did not enter asterisks when I posted the above.

[iam]

I found two flatworms in my garden today and noted that someone though that they could not survive the cold
I have found that do survive the cold, the temp. has been down to -5c. over the past week and that the best way to get rid of the when you find them is to drop them into some vinegar, could also try soaking your soil with a vinegar solution

[Darwin.]

I may have had some of those last year in the polytunnel. I thought at the time they were leeches and was wondering what the hell a leech was doing in a polytunnel.

[veggiechicken]

I found two flatworms in my garden today and noted that someone though that they could not survive the cold
I have found that do survive the cold, the temp. has been down to -5c. over the past week and that the best way to get rid of the when you find them is to drop them into some vinegar, could also try soaking your soil with a vinegar solution

Welcome iam. Could you put your location on your profile please - so that we know where these flatworms are!

[snohare]

Ooh, damn right they can survive the cold ! I was shifting logs with my father last weekend in Braemar - it was dinging down snow, yet again, as it has done on and off all winter - and underneath one big round I found a flattie, nestling in amongst the bark debris. Minus five, minus ten - not a problem with a foot of solid wood above and nice rotting cellulose underneath ! I left it to sink, swim or freeze into the ice in the water barrel.
As you'd expect I suppose, given that they come from New Zealand and it's not known for its warm winters.
I just hope they can't grow fur !
Came home to Lumphanan, moved a plant pot encrusted with a foot of snow...and there in the grass roots below, was another massive flattie, getting on for two inches long. I put it out on a wall next to some bird food, far far away from anywhere to hide. (I hope.)
I don't like to kill them, they are just doing what Ma Nature dictates...but they really are all over the place here now if I'm finding them in backwaters like these.

[iam]

I have no idea how to alter my profile, my location is North Ayrshire

[veggiechicken]

Hi Iam. Go to Settings at the top of the page, then Edit Profile on the left, Scroll down until you reach a box called Location. Put your details in and Save.

[Verinda]

I drop them into the stove, then feel really guilty. It's just horrible having them eating all my precious earth worms though.

Are there any earth worms left in New Zealand I wonder, or have they found a way to fight back!

[iam]

Thanks, veggiechicken finally got there

[veggiechicken]

Well done Iam I just read that you're new to computers. If you get stuck using this Forum just ask and someone will be along to help

[KittyColdNose]

These things give me the heebies, a bit like something out of a Stephen King book . They were even in a dream last week

[Birdie Wife]

Hope people don't mind me resurrecting this old thread - I just found the dreaded NZ flatworm on my plot yesterday and I found this thread very helpful. They are very uncommon up here in the Highlands...

[Aberdeenplotter]

Good call resurrecting the thread. No need to reinvent the wheel

[bario1]

My plot's rife with them.

[KevinM67]

Bejesus, Scotland seems rife with them.

They scare the hell out of me.