I was shocked when I first saw them in our garden.  I thought they were baby cobras.

It was actually the tails of these bloated worms instead of cobra’s head.  I guess that they must have eaten too much of leaves and they store the food in their tails, and make their tails swelling.  From what I observed, these worms are vegetarian.

I told my mother and she said that she has never seen this type of little creatures before.

They were very small.    Each of them is about 1 cm long.  they have many little legs.  They look like mini cobras, and very scary although they are small in size.

They destroy leaves in a special way:- instead of making holes on leaves, they eat only the upper layer of the leaves and make the leaves semi-transparent.

I am not sure where they came from, but they appear only on the leaves of the noni plants.  I hope they wouldn’t hurt other insects and other plants in my garden.

SiewPeng told me that there was a type of dinosaur called “Ankylosaurus” which  also had a similar shape of tail.