This story was published by The Sun and reproduced with permission. Download formats Catalogue Persistent Identifier APA Citation MLA Citation Australian/Harvard Citation Wikipedia Citation Horsehair worms and a shark / by. They can turn their heads 180 degrees to scan surroundings and they have five eyes - two large with three smaller located in between. Their triangular heads rest upon on a long “neck,” or elongated thorax which gives them great accuracy. The fascinating bugs are formidable predators. However, there are times when horsehair worms are highly vulnerable to a predator like a fish: 1) when the gordiids adults emerge, in aquatic environments, from their insect host which they.
They’re also sometimes known as “Gordian,” referring to the Gordian Knot as the hellish creatures often wind themselves into coils and tangles.īut praying mantis’s themselves are hardly bottom of the food chain either. The beasts are usually found in damp areas and grow between two to four inches long. They chow down on bugs’ brains - usually grasshoppers and crickets - which then causes the “host” to seek out water and drown itself, returning the slinky parasites to their watery lairs.īut with the bug now dead, the creepy crawlers were slithering elsewhere to find another poor soul to burrow into. wrote: “I hated every single second of that.”Īnother added: “There was a very distinct point for me when it switched from ‘oh, that’s kinda neat’ to ‘WHY IS IT NOT ON FIRE?!?!’”Īnd one more simply wrote: “I say we ****ing nuke that”.Īnd the truth behind the mystery is perhaps even more horrifying.Īccording to one brainy user, the mantis had been infected with horsehair worms - common parasites that choose an invertebrate “host” and feed on its fat stores. ^ "Veera Simha Reddy closing collections".^ "Kisi Ka Bhai Kisi Ki Jaan Box Office".^ " '2018' box office collection: Tovino Thomas starrer becomes the first Malayalam film to reach Rs 200 crore!".^ " 'Varisu' and 'Thunivu's successful run in theatres for more than 25 days".^ "Indian Cinema scores 1500 crore at global box office in January Shah Rukh Khan's Pathaan leads by a margin"."Worldwide Highest Grossing Bollywood Movies on 2023 - Bollywood Hungama". ^ "Tu Jhoothi Main Makkaar Box Office".The most famous trait of certain species of horsehair worms is the ability to alter the behaviour of grasshoppers and crickets to seek water, causing the host to drown itself to complete its lifecycle. ^ May 2023 " "Ponniyin Selvan 2" box office". Scientific name: Nematomorpha Horsehair worms are parasitic worms of the clade Nematoida alongside their sister taxa Nematoda, the roundworms.^ "Bollywood Top Grossers Worldwide 2023".
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