1. Parasitic demon nematodes
Can you believe it? It is such a tiny bug that makes nature's arthropods so afraid, this is the iron worm. The nematode is shaped like a tree branch, but most resemble dark wire, and its name is also derived from its appearance. Iron worms are actually a type of parasite in the phylum of linear animals, it and the childhood shadow roundworm of the 80s belongs to the same kind of linear animals, but they are very different, roundworms are at most parasitic in the host body, squeeze the host's nutrition, drill a little to make your stomach hurt. But nematodes are different, they not only parasitize the host's body to squeeze the host's nutrition, but also can manipulate the host's will. For this reason, it is known as the mind controller of the animal kingdom.
If you put a praying mantis into the water, a terrible scene appears at this time. In the world of insects, praying mantis can be called a kingly being. But praying mantis is not without something not afraid, one is eaten by female mantis when mating with female mantis, because the same kind of killing each other in the world of praying mantis is not surprising, and the other that makes mantis afraid is nematode, a slender worm from the tail of the mantis broke out, this is the nematode, the general nematode can grow 30-100 cm, but the body length of the praying mantis is only 5-10 cm, so how does such a long nematode drill into the body of the mantis? It turns out that all this is a scourge from the mouth, any creature is inseparable from water, and the eggs of the nematode are also parasitized in some lakes and rivers, and the juvenile nematode is also the most difficult to see with the naked eye, when the praying mantis is drinking water, the eggs of the nematode will run along the water flow to the body of the praying mantis.
2. Known as the mind controller of the animal kingdom
It is the mind controller of the animal kingdom, how did it cause arthropods to commit suicide by jumping into the river on their own?
When the nematode runs into the body of the mantis, they will frantically absorb the host's nutrition for a second promotion, the praying mantis will not feel any abnormality in the short term, as the nematode is getting bigger and bigger, the nutritional supply of the praying mantis is getting more and more unable to keep up, resulting in the mantis completely losing its ability to reproduce, after the nematode is almost mature, they will manipulate the mantis to a place where there is a water source, induce them to dive, the praying mantis that cannot swim will be drowned, and the nematode will drill out from the tail of the mantis back into the water to continue to reproduce, then someone will ask, How do nematodes induce praying mantis to dive?
There are various theories circulating on the Internet, one is that nematodes can secrete a special protein that can make the host feel very thirsty, so that they can't control drinking a lot of water, and then jump into the water. There is also a theory that nematodes use the phototaxis of the host itself to influence the behavior of the host. There are many theories, which are up to scientists to find out and verify.
A few years ago, a director in South Korea made a "Invasion of Iron Worms" on a whim, but this movie is about iron worms invading the human body and letting humans commit suicide by jumping into rivers. Then some people will ask, will iron worms parasitize in the human body? In fact, those are the plots in the movie, in real life, the cases of nematodes infecting humans are very rare, people infected with parasites are generally caused by eating raw food and drinking raw water, even if they are parasitized by nematodes, it is only causing abdominal pain and indigestion. So everything we eat needs to be cooked before we can eat it.
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