5 minute freewrite 2532 prompt huge impact

This is my post for #freewriters 2532 prompt huge impact hosted by @mariannewest

Before the storm I was cutting back some of the plants away from the house, we had had a few days of rain so the ground was sopping wet. This black snake crawled on top of the cuttings and did not want to move. I guessed it was the only dry spot.

It has been a windy week and our areca palms that we have in pots keep blowing over. I picked this one up yesterday and came face to face with a black snake. I mean eyeball to eyeball, but it did not move. I kept looking at it and it was not moving. I decided to leave it alone for a bit. I came back later and it still had not moved so I got my husband to take care of it. I thought that maybe it had got caught between the branches and was dead. When we got back to it, it was gone, I guess it just was not ready to move, like the other one. Maybe it was the same one.

I have been seeing a lot of these black worms. The first time I saw one, we were collecting worms to go fishing with and I found one. I took it fishing and had a hard time trying to cut it in half. I never got a bite on it but after I took it off, I caught fish.

I did Google Lens on it and this is what was the closest thing I could find to match it.
The New Guinea flatworm (Platydemus manokwari) is a nonnative, invasive, and toxic flatworm that is black or dark brown in color and can be found in Florida: Their diet consists of snails, slugs, earthworms, and other small invertebrates

Since then I have been seeing more and more of them, that was only last year. When I saw this one I was loading my truck to go to the dump, so he went, too. With a diet of worms and how many more I am seeing, I think they will have a huge impact on my worm population.

I am wondering if they are more widespread than I know or if anyone knows, our worm population might be in trouble. Now I have another thing to worry about going extinct.
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