Parasitic Shoelace

[ZeusDeusEx]

Yeah, you cuddle with the parasitic worm! You do that!

[makemap]

STOMP IT!

[AMCKEJB3]

its called a horse hair worm / gordium worm its a parasite they grow in crickets and cockroaches

[ghostavenger1988]

lol'd at the guy saying "its some kind of SNAKE or worm"

[Dusty696969]

They infect mostly crickets.

[effoffalready]

Just stopping by to say that I'm really happy to see you respect the life of even little "Sticky" there. True some things have to be put into consideration with parasites, but either way. I'm happy to see your enthusiasm and level of respect.

....Kay I'm gonna go hippie somewhere else now lol.

[Bobzeedo]

This danger is moving northward - Google and read "Insect Can Implant Parasite Without Touching You and Its Moving Northward"

[mattattack2727]

itsa hairworm... its cool, and it can infect cockroachers and take over their brains.

[angeltoyouful]

This is Gordius aquaticus.

[immanuelnona1998]

u realize that came out of a suicidal cricket. u know that right?

[qowndnjs1]

Cool how no one actually knew the worm.

[wonkeytjuuuh]

it's a horsehair worm parasite :p

[yackemflamber]

That girl is more manly than me :C

[larry89]

snake? are you kidding? lol

[tisk65]

muten black spugeti

[milliamp]

They can't infect humans, but I still wouldn't touch it.

[spazzbit]

i came acrosed one at a river by my friends farm and i thought it was a a type of parasitic round worm that may have been excreted by a cow upstream.

[ShwamoRox787]

I love those I find them at pigeon lake all the time they are so cool!

[kumuphu]

It's a horsehair worm. They grow inside of crickets, then, when they're ready to burst out, they drive the cricket to water (the adults live in water) where it either drowns or dies from them bursting out of it. There's usually a wad of 3-4 of them that come out of one cricket. It's unusual that you found just that one. If not near water, they usually dry up and die within a few minutes of emergence. The whole thing is pretty sickening, actually. Poor cricket. Must be horrible to die like that.

[iLikeBondage69]

lace them in someones shoes and freak them out

[puffnbrew2]

@PoonReturns She's like 12 years old dude. seriously u have problems, stay away from schools and day cares

[CaptSunshineEternal]

@Mindofpoet Im pretty sure bbox answered it lol

[bbox]

Those kids got balls...

[teranfoong]

Possessed shoelace  F-T-W !

[teranfoong]

Possessed shoelace FTW 

[Zakkstabubba]

I would pay one of the girls 50 cents to eat it. It just looks like a horse hair worm, I see them all the time, but its completely harmless... to humans.

[Joker13rekoJ]

@Zakkstabubba What isnt it harmless to just horses

[CCChristiann]

morning chelsea did u have fun last night mmmh

[CaptSunshineEternal]

@CCChristiann haha im sure i did but plz refresh my memory when that was

[Evrythn1outof8infnty]

If it jumps into your eye don't blame me

[Boogers32150]

DUDE...

[weirdduder10]

i wouldnt be too close i mean like wat would you do if it went up your nose and controlled your brain?

[laskotop67]

i find some of these things in grasshopper corpse, always drowned.

(The girls are pretty :P)

[Doomerater]

did you ever find out what it is?

[TryOG]

it doesn't harm humans.

[ModestDanny]

Squirmy Wormy :)

[AmandacooL8]

dont touch this people this worm will get in your intestens and kill you!

[spoochlove1]

that thing couldve easily slid under your fingernails

[starfyi]

eww whats that ewwwwwwwie

[herobrother2]

possessed shoelace...........maybe O_o

[c0c0147]

wait wtf wasnt dat girl wearin the blue on 16 and pregnant? O.O

[DirectedBySteve]

Touching it... YOU'rE TOUCHING IT?!!?!

[littlekittty41]

@DirectedBySteve lol :)

[mootj3]

That chick with the blue shirt on = superhot.

[Doomerater]

@mootj3 grow up. 

[flyingbryanful]

what is it?

[findsugar]

nematomorpha

[cooldudesk8tr]

Yeah dumb girl just pick it up and watch id go into ur skin and mutate your face and turn you into some weird alien

[u45uify]

lol sticky nice name

[combineskittles]

its a parasite

[AudreyDMT]

it is not cool when it gets under your skin.

[immortalx50]

breathe it in!

[gorosujap]

its Nematomorph.. lol ㅎㅎㅎ

[gorosujap]

Nematomorph

[Mofmane]

lol its fake.

you can see it clearly:P

[kitchenfromhell]

It is a hair worm

[iamaj1201]

yay sticky the parasite

[VanillaShoelace]

Why are you camping with a bunch of young girls?

[CaptSunshineEternal]

@VanillaShoelace um seriously??? one is my dad and the other is a close friend of my family

[GokuLuvur]

dont touch it!!!! scaryyhh

[erichouse2000]

I think that is a Horse Hair Snake we have them here in Colorado.

[999124999]

LOL POSSESSED SHOE LACE xD

[thetechnoPIMP]

please eat it

[thetechnoPIMP]

PLEASE, EAT IT

[thetechnoPIMP]

please eat it

[thetechnoPIMP]

eat it please

[thetechnoPIMP]

EAT IT PLEASE

[thetechnoPIMP]

EAT IT!!

[ScorpioX19]

Are those things safe to touch

[AudreyDMT]

@ScorpioX19 no

[TheGameVortex]

@ScorpioX19

yep very safe

[codenamecommando]

Great Video! I've got a similar one "Grasshoppers parasitic hairworm." Ours was doing the same as yours, almost drying out, making it difficult to move, until we put it in water...

[Dracanisa]

XD that thing is kinda cool.

[faizn]

that thing makes u commit suicide

or atleast it does to insects

[juicymoose007]

I wouldn't want to be that close to it. What if latched onto your face and slithered up your nose?

[CaptSunshineEternal]

Haha idk if this was supposed to be funny, but i think it is.

[sharkbay1]

@juicymoose007 Horsehair worms only parasitize invertebrates such as insects. To complete their life cycle, they must infect large invertebrates that are relatively long-lived. Horsehair worms are harmless to vertebrates because they cannot parasitize people, livestock, pets, and birds. They also do not infect plants. If humans ingest the worms, they may encounter some mild discomfort of the intestinal tract but infection never occurs.

[Karltheork]

Many parasitic worms are covered in microscopic eggs. Don't know about this particular species, but I hope you washed your hands before eating anything. And had no open cuts. Also hope they aren't the kind that simply get absorbed into the skin.

[iscay666]

@Karltheork Its a parasite for grasshoppers and other insects its harmless to humans, mostly just something cool to look at. Go eat some dirt it builds the imunne system lol

[441meatloaf]

@Karltheork

well if they are educated they wouldn't touch it in the first place.

[cooldudesk8tr]

@Karltheork  You sound like my friend Alex who includes way too many details about things in nature

[1objection]

I was expecting it to eat through her finger into her hand.

[dcajohn]

Lol cool.. not the worms.. but the Girls =) XD

[darkace1111]

i was waiting for it to bite her

[1life4]

lol i Shall call him sticky and i will love him and sqweeze him and hold him closely...

[d3luna1]

parasite

[MrHarveyxD]

me gusta la de azul

[buttdread]

possessed shoe lace! omg, awesome though

[shawtylikedee]

maybe ita possessed shoe lace lol

[speak119]

si la niña del seg 17 parecia asustada.

[LMaOvidshahaha]

thats a horse hair worm

[kane110018]

have a guese wht the longest animal iz in the world

[OS253]

Do you know what camping site he found this thing?

[CaptSunshineEternal]

starkey park near the cabins

[lonewolf0017]

@CaptSunshineEternal cool. now I know where to avoid gigantic parasites...

[KRuby1994]

ergghh dont touch it !

[theyepper]

there was a hole in a tree full of water and i saw one and the next day there were 20 swimming around in it

[nicenick1000]

thats a horsehair

[karaobn]

oh god i would NOT touch that... aghhhhh

[POKOHelba]

when he did that "RAAH!" it made ME jump XD

[zipakna]

its a Go'auld

[SarahSnape]

<3 Yay, Stargate!

[deathstra8]

I swear I saw 1 at Noth Wembley train station in london across the tracks, some guy was filming it it was jumping around and everything

[GhostTech100]

that is called a horse hair worm very harmless

they live in bugs very very to almost none of time they would be inside a human if posible or animales so there safe to pic up but not eat.they live in mud pudles or damp spots befor entering a bug.smash grasshopers you will find some in them. they love grass hpers they sinse body heat. becuase there sintive.

[TheDJRapiD]

hi i'm real confused i just don't understand how they find mates or even manage to get inside a grasshopper they seem to have no sense of direction what so ever can you help me pls?

[xXWILLTHEGAMERXx]

not harmless if your the bug XP

[yycleo]

train them so that you'll never have problems with shoelaces getting undone.

[MintyNapalm]

Win

[hugarf]

hahaha nice

that would be weird but funny awesome and scary at the same time

[lukeplayer1]

nice find its a horse hair worm

[benyfresh09]

This is a horsehairworm.

its invades insects like grasshoppers or crickets etc...

[bladudemovies]

It's a paracitic worm. they live in incects bodies and take controll of them. They like water. One of these took controll of a cricket, made it commit suicide by jumping in the water and then it came out. We are immune to these thankfully

[binoyrakesh]

1. all those people in the video including the kid are very beautiful.

2. i would never touch that worm.

3. there are parasites like this one(well actually bigger and more disgusting than these) that are inside most human beings.!!

peace.

[LTUcronus]

Actually this parasite is too nimble to be a parasite of humans body. And this shit was able to see his hand. So this creature is something different from body parasite. I would`t touch it anyways.

[MATTCHEWONYOU411]

all things noone cares about

[ihcet777]

q valiente... ah..yo no sé si me hubiera a trevido...a pesar de que los nematomorfos son inofensivos para el ser humano...

[2bin]

Forget the worm...

...watch out for the JAILBAIT!!!

[customauto845]

How can you pick that thing up? I saw the same thing comming out of a cricket I stepped on. There were 2 worms which were larger then the cricket.Was told they are Horsehair worms.How can we believe that these alien creatures are harmless? Could Humans be thier next Victims? It seems they are found around the world. I won't step on a cricket again!!!!

[et3rn4lsuff3r1ng]

They are harmless to humans because our immune systems would just kill it. Some researchers pick them up by the hundreds around the riversides. These horsehair worms only live inside bugs..not humans.

[mbepi1121]

thank you for clearing that up, it was making me paranoid haha

[nat2102]

"posessed shoelace" hehe

[Vexitor]

not gonna be so cool when it bores into your body and makes you commit suicide in water.

[dylantuzyk]

its funny cause its true

[CaptSunshineEternal]

Yeah I may not have picked it up if I had known what it was but I highly doubt I would have let it worm its way under my skin. haha

[et3rn4lsuff3r1ng]

Don't worry it doesn't possess humans...they are a bit too small to eat anything inside us anyways.

[AcezaSpadez]

how naive. lol

[pratt123]

don't worry, they get bigger once they get inside. Up to 22 feet long in some species.

[benyfresh09]

This worm isn't so dangerous for humans...

its dangerous for bugs.

[MRPredator]

earthworm?

[AWSOMERIST]

XD its a possessed shoe lace

[lolwut312]

Its a parasitic worm called Spinochordodes tellinii

[crueIty]

aka hairworm