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Guy kills a zombie praying mantis, revealing a huge parasite living inside

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So, I'm watching this and listening to my playlist at the same time and Disturbed - Down With the Sickness just so happens to play... fitting.
 
meppi said:
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Sorry about that. ;P
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That picture just got a whole new meaning
 
Very interesting video.

Since they've already been mentioned, for some reason I find it oddly fascinating to watch videos of parasites like mango worms being extracted...although I do feel sorry for the animals having to cope with the worms, and it's sad when they're in pain. :( They always seem so, so much happier after they're all out.

(Warning, some may find this disturbing. I wonder if this is the origin of trypophobia?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNYx4BjUHqg
 
Yrael said:
Very interesting video.

Since they've already been mentioned, for some reason I find it oddly fascinating to watch videos of parasites like mango worms being extracted...although I do feel sorry for the animals having to cope with the worms, and it's sad when they're in pain. :( They always seem so, so much happier after they're all out.

(Warning, some may find this disturbing. I wonder if this is the origin of trypophobia?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNYx4BjUHqg
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This video is one of the few that's able to illicit a physical reaction from my body. I get flush and my blood pressure rises and my stomach starts flipping over.

Yet I still watch it about every 6 months.
 
marrec said:
This video is one of the few that's able to illicit a physical reaction from my body. I get flush and my blood pressure rises and my stomach starts flipping over.

Yet I still watch it about every 6 months.
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I know right? Though I don't really feel the physical revulsion from a video like that...maybe I've just become desensitised.

I guess they could always be worse...like this massive cyst (warning, possibly even worse than the mango worms):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71Lo4TGR-A8

DoktorEvil said:
So that's what Spider-man must feel when he has the symbiote living inside of him...
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Masquerader said:
Well, why didn't he kill it immediately? As far as I can tell, parasites are useless to the ecosystem.
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You should watch the TED talk that was linked earlier. They are in fact extremely important to the ecosystem, as creepy as that is.

The horse hair worm, for instance, drives all sorts of insects to drown themselves. One study showed that 40% (or was it 60%, it's mentioned in the video) of trout diet was made up of those insects. Or the tape worm that drives brine shrimp to gather together and turn bright red so that flamingos can more easily see (and thus eat) them.


I've been fascinated by parasites since my older sister took a parasytology course. The fish-tongue parasite is my favorite!
 
Truly fascinating. It's amazing that the mantis' body still supported movement with that large a parasite inside,

Isn't nature wonderful?
 
AbsolutBro said:
You should watch the TED talk that was linked earlier. They are in fact extremely important to the ecosystem, as creepy as that is.

The horse hair worm, for instance, drives all sorts of insects to drown themselves. One study showed that 40% (or was it 60%, it's mentioned in the video) of trout diet was made up of those insects. Or the tape worm that drives brine shrimp to gather together and turn bright red so that flamingos can more easily see (and thus eat) them.


I've been fascinated by parasites since my older sister took a parasytology course. The fish-tongue parasite is my favorite!
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Lice and ticks and also cause Apes and monkeys to socialise by grooming each other.
 
So, thanks to watching this video last night youtube has decided I want at least 1/3 of all recommended videos to be parasite related now...
 
AbsolutBro said:
You should watch the TED talk that was linked earlier. They are in fact extremely important to the ecosystem, as creepy as that is.

The horse hair worm, for instance, drives all sorts of insects to drown themselves. One study showed that 40% (or was it 60%, it's mentioned in the video) of trout diet was made up of those insects. Or the tape worm that drives brine shrimp to gather together and turn bright red so that flamingos can more easily see (and thus eat) them.


I've been fascinated by parasites since my older sister took a parasytology course. The fish-tongue parasite is my favorite!
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Wow, I never knew any of that. I like the parasite that goes into ants and drives them up trees, or something (sorry for my vagueness, but could you tell me what parasite that one is?).
 
Yrael said:
Ophiocordyceps unilateralis

It's a parasitic fungus.
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Yup, there's a couple versions of it too. One drives the ants up as high as they can get so that when the ant dies and the fungal spores pop out of its head, they can spread really far.

Another drives the ant deeper and deeper into the ant's colony so that when the ant dies, the rest of the nest is infected. The ants of the colony usually take the dead ants super far from the nest to try to save the hive.
 
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