Controlling the host to commit suicide by diving
A praying mantis jumped into the water with a strange stride, and a few seconds later, a long black worm emerged from its body. Who would have thought that such a small body of a praying mantis could burrow into a half-meter-long bug, which is the infamous clematis, but in fact, this is not nothing, because the most terrifying thing is that it can manipulate human behavior.
The clematis, as its name suggests, in addition to its color and figure that looks like wire, has a very hard shell, so that when its host is crushed into a meat paste, the clematis is still alive and well.
Because it looks like a small version of the snake clematis, also known as the hair snake, it is also the same as our childhood shadow roundworm, all belong to the nematode animal phylum, but the clematis is more shameless and more terrifying than roundworms.
As an aquatic worm, there are more than three hundred species of clematis in the world, and the most common ones we find in the wild are about 10 to 50 centimeters, but some clematis will also be super long, directly channeling to more than a meter long.
Female clematis lay large numbers of gelatinous eggs in the water, and after the eggs hatch into larvae, they gather in a corner of the pool and wait as appetizers to be eaten by carnivorous insects.
How can such a ferocious insect as a praying mantis not be moved when they see a delicacy, and when they begin to enjoy the larvae, they do not expect to be trapped by the clematis, and the fate of the praying mantis is also doomed at this moment.
Clematis will take this opportunity to parasitize the body of the praying mantis, and the number of this parasite is unlimited, multiple clematis can live together in the body of the same host, they do not compete to eat each other, only the praying mantis becomes the only big wronged species.
Clematis cling motionlessly to the mantis's digestive tract, and instead of sucking blood, they absorb nutrients to allow themselves to develop as quickly as possible.
Similar to roundworms devouring nutrients in the human body, clematis also destroy the mantis's gonads, cutting them off.
Although the nutrients in the praying mantis are sucked clean by clematis, they will not die.
Until the clematis is fully grown into an adult, and the mantis host has no use for it at all, it will manipulate the mantis's brain and run towards the place where there is water.
At this time, the praying mantis will plunge into the water and when it drowns and commits suicide, the clematis will struggle frantically for a few seconds and then break open.
As a result, the mantis's body clematis is reborn, the host dies, and the parasite reborns, which is called parasitism. Why not parasitism?
Because parasites are parasites and hosts always coexist, the question is, so since it can manipulate insects to commit suicide by diving, can it manipulate humans?
Parasitic humans
Note that these Koreans are parasitized by clematis, and only if they commit suicide can they bring the clematis back to life.
People infected with clematis will be extremely thirsty, when the worms in the body mature, they will control humans to find water, people who have been delirious will keep drinking water, and finally directly throw water to kill themselves, while countless clematis break free from the corpse, and then multiply to find a new host.
Movie "Clematis Invasion"
According to the plot of the movie, if the clematis really invades the human world like this, then the earth will soon be occupied by the clematis, but this is after all the art of cinema, although it originates from life, it is still higher than life, so this situation is simply impossible, and the audience can put the hanging heart into the stomach.
However, clematis do parasitize the human body.
In 2001, a woman in Sichuan suddenly felt severe pain in her abdomen, and the doctor diagnosed acute appendicitis and underwent appendectomy.
A month later, the abdomen was still in severe pain, accompanied by vomiting, and worms were found in the vomit, identified as female clematis.
In 2002, a man in Anhui province was infected with clematis in his throat because he always drank raw water.
In the same year, a woman in Henan province contracted clematis in her urinary system because she liked to take a cold bath in a small river in the wild.
In the hot summer, many small partners definitely want to go to places with mountains and water in the wild, camp and eat a small barbecue.
But behind the seemingly beautiful summer days is full of dangers, and when you jump into the water to get ready to swim, the clematis has quietly set its sights on you, and it may enter your body from the water you accidentally drank.
But clematis larvae are the most dry, they burrow through the urethral opening of your lower body, And Abuo will feel a tightness in your lower body just by thinking about it, and then jump in your bladder to open the party.
In fact, men are fine, most of the clematis parasitize are women, after you are treated as a host, the worm will absorb the nutrition of your body, and you can live for many years after growing into an adult worm.
In the stage of being parasitic, you are not unaware, the small belly often produces severe pain and frequent urination, urgency, incomplete urination, and hematuria inflammation.
They will also follow the chrysanthemum all the way into the intestines, there will be indigestion, diarrhea, this kind of gastrointestinal discomfort, until the insects are excreted, the symptoms will be alleviated.
Clematis will indeed not kill you, but it is true that it is better to let you live than to die, but don't panic, because clematis is actually a very rare parasitic disease.
Only 14 countries worldwide have had such diseases, and only 50 cases have occurred on the mainland, and almost all cases have been related to unclean water sources.
It is now almost impossible for clematis to invade humans from their daily lives and manipulate the human mind to dive into the water to commit suicide, because they can't get through the waterworks alone.
Therefore, most of the clematis parasitism incidents still occur in insects, in fact, insects such as locusts and crickets are also the hosts of clematis, but there is no fierce black widow mantis famous, so when you mention clematis, you can think of praying mantises.
Each female clematis can lay 27 million eggs, an unimaginably large number that can grow even more than the egg-laying machine Fushou snail, and the larvae usually survive in the host's body for two to three months, and when it is time to lay the eggs, they will escape from the mantis's body.
The host jumps into the water and is forced to commit suicide, but the clematis is able to give birth to a child and escape. But in fact, the clematis is not able to live happily after killing the host, because its mission is to lay eggs and give birth, and after giving birth, the adult worm also reaches the time of death, so there is no very official length for the life of the clematis, and the host can live for a long time.
In addition, scientists also have different opinions about why clematis can manipulate praying mantises to commit suicide.
Some people think that clematis takes advantage of the phototropism of the host itself, and to some extent affects the host's behavior.
But the most scientific explanation is that clematis will secrete a wnt molecule when parasitizing, and after binding to a certain protein of the praying mantis, it can be mixed into the host's nervous system, thus having the effect of clematis controlling the brain and forcing the parasite of the host to die.
This seems to be the death of one creature creating the rebirth of another creature, but in fact, it is extremely frightening behind it, after all, the praying mantis has done nothing, just wants to eat a full meal.
In fact, there is another parasite that is as black as clematis, that is, double disc trematodes.
I believe that everyone must have seen such a video, a snail's eyes are constantly flashing, and there seems to be something inside it squirming wildly.
This is a parasite that specifically parasitizes the snail's body, and its purpose is not to encroach on the snail's body and devour the snail's nutrients.
Instead, let the snail explode itself, let the birds notice it, and after being successfully eaten by the bird, the double disc fluke can smoothly enter the bird's body and begin to hatch, so the sad snail is only the intermediate host, and the bird is the ultimate destination of this parasite.
But this is not the most outrageous, the reason why snails are parasitized by this bug is because they will eat feces with eggs, which is also the darkest place for double disc tremors.
It directly designs the snail's life cycle in its own life cycle, that is to say, the parasite is eaten by the snail, the snail is eaten by the bird, and after the bird excretes the worm eggs, it is eaten by the snail, and then the infinite death cycle.
When the snail eats the egg, the egg will grow into a sporangia in the snail's liver and pancreas, and then absorb the snail's nutrients to grow indefinitely.
This seems to be the routine of all parasites, but the double disc fluke is as despicable as the clematis, and in order to make itself stronger, it directly destroys the snail's gonads, just like the clematis's whole mantis.
And snails are hermaphrodites, and there is no difference between a double-disc sucker and a castration.
Snails produce eggs and sperm that expend more energy, and in order to make these abilities belong to them, they can only kill the killer.
When the sporangia gradually mature, it will spread in the snail's blood vessels, and then enter the snail's eyes, which is what we often call the antennae, and then the snail's antennae will become a caterpillar.
This is also the most shrewd point of the parasite, because birds love to eat caterpillars, such a tempting protein feast who would not love?
After being manipulated by the parasite, the snail will choose to stay in a more obvious place, such as the top of the leaf, so that the bird can see at a glance, after it enters the internal organs of the bird, the parasite will develop into a hermaphrodite adult, and then breed the cubs.
Originally thought that the cycle would end here, but the most vicious thing about the parasite is that it knows that when the bird eats the snail, it will peel the tentacles off the snail's body, but the snail will not die, and the tentacles can regenerate, so the snail that was once parasitic will still be parasitized by new eggs.
This wave of parasite operations really makes people speechless, so it seems that the clematis still has a bit of conscience, torturing the host only for this lifetime, and the next life will be said in the next life.
I believe that some people have been trembling, and even began to fantasize about being parasitic, you can rest assured that this is the deception of nature, and it will not hurt mankind for the time being.
But Ah Biao wants to remind here not to drink raw water in the wild to keep clean and hygienic food must be cooked and then eaten after all, small lives matter.