#FlatwormWatch
🪱 Would you like to join the search for invasive land flatworms?
🌱 Join our FlatwormWatch #BioBlitz and learn more about flatworms and their impact on biodiversity
📅 27 June 📍 Meise Botanic Garden
✍ Register (places are limited): docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
June 4, 2026 at 8:48 AM
🌟 #FlatwormWatch - our Citizen Science project on non-native flatworms - was launched one year ago

🔍 We can share some results, with a boom of observations of some species 📈

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@inbo.be @meisebotanicgarden.bsky.social @naturalsciences-be.bsky.social
FlatwormWatch - Citizen science : Platwormen in België - Les Vers plats en Belgique
YouTube video by National Scientific Secretariat on IAS - Belgium
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June 5, 2025 at 8:16 AM
🏵️Our Highlights Report 2024 is now available🌸

Discover on what the IAS Secretariat has been working in 2024, among which
🐸Contingency planning
🔎FlatwormWatch
🐟Codes of conduct with freshwater sectors
🌺 Risk screening of ornamental plants
⬇️ and much more

www.iasregulation.be/920/download
April 16, 2025 at 7:27 AM
annotated checklist & distribution maps of #non-native land #planarians recorded in Belgium w Harmonia+ risk assessment for #invasivespecies has become more effective using tools for climate matching, #citizenscience has boosted the number of records #flatwormwatch
🪱Researchers found 9 #non-native land #planarian species now recorded in Belgium. Risk assessment flags Obama nungara as very high risk, with Diversibipalium multilineatum are also concerning.

👉Read the #openaccess article here: doi.org/10.3897/neob...
August 18, 2026 at 3:16 PM
Platworm: de glibberige bedreiging voor de Brusselse regenworm
Platworm: de glibberige bedreiging voor de Brusselse regenworm
De verrassende aanwezigheid van de Obama nungara in Elsene benadrukt de noodzaak van FlatwormWatch, een nieuw project dat wil nagaan welke soorten uitheemse landplatwormen zich in Brussel bevinden.
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May 24, 2024 at 6:06 AM
Our citizen science project #FlatwormWatch in short 📽️😍

🙏Many thanks to the enthusiastic citizen scientists!

@botanicgarden01 @INBOVlaanderen @CMK_Uhasselt

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December 16, 2024 at 1:51 PM
✅Our citizen science project FlatwormWatch is up and running

🔎Last Sunday, we organized an event with enthusiastic FlatwormWatchers in Meise @botanicgarden01

🪱 Our search in the greenhouses was successful as we were able to spot 4 species

Pictures: N. De Cock, M. Antuna
December 16, 2024 at 1:51 PM
🌟We are very excited to launch #FlatwormWatch, our new Citizen Science project on non-native species! 🪴

It aims at gathering observations of flatworms 🪱 in Belgium thanks to the help of gardeners and naturalists 🔍👩‍🌾

📌More information:

iasregulation.be/flatwormwatch
December 16, 2024 at 1:51 PM
Our citizen science project #FlatwormWatch in short 📽️😍

🙏Many thanks to the enthusiastic citizen scientists!

@botanicgarden01 @INBOVlaanderen @CMK_Uhasselt

x.com/nat_sciences_b…
December 16, 2024 at 1:47 PM
✅Our citizen science project FlatwormWatch is up and running

🔎Last Sunday, we organized an event with enthusiastic FlatwormWatchers in Meise @botanicgarden01

🪱 Our search in the greenhouses was successful as we were able to spot 4 species

Pictures: N. De Cock, M. Antuna
December 16, 2024 at 1:47 PM
🌟We are very excited to launch #FlatwormWatch, our new Citizen Science project on non-native species! 🪴

It aims at gathering observations of flatworms 🪱 in Belgium thanks to the help of gardeners and naturalists 🔍👩‍🌾

📌More information:

iasregulation.be/flatwormwatch
December 16, 2024 at 1:46 PM