Spotting an unfamiliar creature in your yard can be surprising, especially when it looks unlike anything you’ve seen before. After a rainfall or while tending a garden, you might notice a long, flat worm gliding across damp soil, a sidewalk, or a mulch bed. At first glance, it may resemble a large earthworm or even a slug, but a closer look reveals something much more unusual—a hammerhead worm.
Recognizable by its distinctive shovel- or hammer-shaped head, the hammerhead worm is not an ordinary garden visitor. While finding one isn’t necessarily
