What happens if you chop a worm in half

Cut a worm in half please don't , and the front usually grows a new, if shorter, tail end. For the old tail, shorn of vital organs, it's the end; but that's not the end of the tale. Lumbricus and the other two dozen species of British earthworms 1, worldwide are sophisticated tillers of the soil. However, in pond and stream there swims a more primitive worm, black and half an inch long: the flatworm planaria. Cut one in two: the head grows a tail, the tail a head.

Cut one in three: even the middle grows both new head and tail. Each part become whole is thought to carry the memories of its earlier entity; so beware, if you open this can of worms they may seek revenge. And they're carnivorous. Pin 0. More Than 10, Downloads Beautiful Aquaponics System Design.

You may have been told as a child that an earthworm will regenerate into two new worms if it's cut in half crosswise. But if you've ever experimented with the tube-like animals, you've probably been disappointed. Though it may not seem like it, earthworms have a distinctive head and tail. Earthworm Watch team members at the London Wetland Centre event.

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