It waits in the soil and penetrates passing slugs, which die within days or weeks. More nematodes emerge to feast and breed on the dead slug before they disperse into the soil. In Europe, the nematode ...

In the woman’s case, the endoscopy showed “the presence of live nematodes [worms] in the descending portion of the patient’s duodenum,” which is the beginning of the small intestine.

The Wyoming Nematode Survey is done in several different commodities in order to detect the presence or absence of those parasitic nematodes of concern to the state and to potential export recipients.