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Re: Help, are these Flukes?
 
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Re: Help, are these Flukes?


In my opinion they aren't of the fasciola type variety. There may be other types out there and it may be a parasite but I don't recognize them resembling any part of the fasciola species. From the skins I have noticed they roll up in particular patterns. There are two types that I have encountered in the past. One is where the tegument is more or less "shedding" so to speak. I don't know the proper name for it. But it is rolled up along it's long axis from both sides and has a definitive loop running down the long the axis on either side. I have seen that one a lot. Most of the time they for me have been dark red in color and very pliable and thin. All of them generally have that same shape though where they are rolled up from either ends towards the center.

The other skins that I find are ones from actual dead parasites. These are much thicker, almost abrasive. Like an extremely fine grain of sand paper. I have seen them rolled up the other way. Where it is simply one big roll from the top to the bottom. When you unroll it, it has the the oblong trapezoidal shape of the fasciola species. it's pretty tough to tear apart and maybe 1/32 inch in thickess or so. It's thick. I believe I have the fasciola buski as well considering I unrolled a near 2" abrasive skin that had the shape of a fasciola species. I have noticed the thinner skins that I describe above except the loops on either side are much shorter. Still rolled up along the long axis towards the center.

Other times I have found the entire body of the flukes some still containing their internal organs and others not. If you do find some of the more abrasive type you should be able to see remnants of it's internal organs attached to the underside of the fluke, like small strands attached. Some have had dark patches when I have rolled them out while others have more or less been completely in their original shape except dead. But, to answer you question, the strivled up pattern with lots of creases I haven't come across. I've always been able to make out the original shape by rolling it out more or less when I find it. So, I don't think you have anything in there that looks like the fasciola species to me. You did mention something that felt like an rough bark. It should resemble a fasciola shape. Also, I wasn't able to essentially kill any fasciola species with herbs. No matter what I tried, it just wasn't strong enough or my population count might have been too high. I don't know. So, that's what I usually see when I find one of the flukes. I don't really know what that could be.
David
 

 
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