This insect is so enormous, it was mistaken for a reptile. In late October, a concerned Midlothian, Virginia, resident spotted a strange “snake” measuring roughly 10 to 12 inches long with a head ...

You probably already know that North Carolina has lots of snakes. So you might not give a long, skinny thing slithering along the ground a second thought. “Yep,” you’d say to yourself, “just another ...

[R]esearchers say that when it comes to invasive earthworms, a particularly nasty annelid species poses a growing threat to a large chunk of New England’s forest ecosystem, including sugar maples.

Worms are interesting creatures. Some worms can even regrow their brains if needed. But, an invasive jumping worm has started appearing in more than a dozen states throughout the Midwest. The worms ...

A foot-long invasive species slithered by a suburban Virginia resident last week, leaving pest-control experts scratching their heads before they found help identifying it. In a now-removed Facebook ...

Crazy snake worms are slithering into gardens across New England, and they mean big trouble, experts say. Yes, that’s their real name. (Their scientific name is Amynthas agrestis.) The gray worms, ...

As you tend to your garden this summer, there's a creepy, crawly creature to be on the lookout for: an invasive worm that moves like a snake, thrashes around, jumps into the air and will even shed its ...

During more than a dozen fishing trips to lakes and sloughs and other inland waters over the past couple of months, I've seen exactly one snake. That was Tuesday morning, when a broad-banded water ...

Because 2020 is the year that keeps on giving there’s another ominously named creature out there in our wilds that we are being alerted to be on the lookout for. That’s right, the year that has ...

Step aside “murder hornets,” sightings of an invasive species of a snake-like worm are being reported in Georgia. Sightings of shovel-headed garden worms, also known as hammerhead worms, have recently ...

Climate change is contributing to the spread of a creepy crawler called the "jumping snake worm" that has the capability of destroying forests. This kind of earthworm started arriving in the US about ...