...another instance where calm is called for: when you spot a bipalium kewense flatworm that's longer than your foot.

these guys are big predators of earthworms & are thus enemies of mine. they may also be carriers for angiostrongylus.

they are one of my least favorite creepy crawlies. do not touch with your hands. smoosh them on sight. they can regrow from fragments, so smoosh them FULLY.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipalium_kewense

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living with the land requires a certain level of calm when you find a huge live cane toad floating in one of your water buckets (toad juice!!!). or when you find a slug at the bottom of your veggie bowl. that bowl gets put in a tub every day at dusk so slugs don't get in, & yet!

(slugs here are carriers for angiostrongylus cantonensis, & the cane toads have poison skin. yay nature!)

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