Saw this dark, glossy thing gliding across my garden path. It has a pale stripe down its back and moves smoothly like a leech rather than inching like a worm. It looks totally foreign. What is it?

That glossy stranger on your garden path may be more than a curiosity. With a pale stripe and an unnervingly smooth glide, it looks nothing like the familiar creatures beneath your flowers. But before you touch it or move it elsewhere, there is a crucial question to answer about this unexpected visitor and what its arrival means for gard… Continues…

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