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Uploaded by on Jul 21, 2006

When abdomen of parasited praying mantis is soaked in water, hoursehair worms swim out.

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Nishi,H 2004.
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  • HEY HOW THE MANTIS GET THAT PARASITE

  • @TheGaboefects

    That parasite's intermediary host is the aquatic insect like mayflies. The mantis get the parasite when they eat the aquatic insects.

  • So...Is their some kind of test to see if that insect is infected?

  • Hmm, I don't know such a test.

  • How did you know it had a parasite in the first place?

    Weirdest thing I have ever seen!

  • I couldn't know it had a parasite.

    But this species of mantis have parasites at high percentage.

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  • Please tell me that question is a joke.

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  • @goldensleeves me-dusa?

  • What happens when you pull it back out?

  • 어우 시발 ㅋㅋㅋ 연가시네 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

  • it's breakdancing lol

  • not fake. its an extremely creepy parasite. its so creepy, that it only appears to be fake. but its all to real

  • ...you guys are fucking stupid.

    it isn't fake.

    it's a hair worm.

    a parasite that infects alot of insects including grasshoppers.

    it brain washes them into jumping into water, drowning themselves

  • it looks fake

  • No the person is not joking. This happens. Sometimes human hairs are infested by the bodily nerves that are usually encapsulated within the body of a horsehair worm. The nerves are able to root themselves at the base of the human scalp and actually can sprout and grow, thus disguising itself as being a human hair but in reality being a worm. Okay I just made that up but that would be crazy if your hair had worm nerves in it.

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