In many film and television works, alien terrifying creatures, or viruses, manipulate other creatures to turn them into brainless zombies, in real life, are actually real, and even more terrifying, which is shocking. And the outcome of animals that encounter parasitism will be very tragic. Check it out with the Sbike Animal and Flora Encyclopedia! (Top)
Tongue-eating sea lice
Tongue-eating sea lice: one of the most amazing and terrifying parasites in the world. It is the first time that humans have discovered a way in which a host can completely replace an organ. The larval stage enters the mouth of the fish, attaches to the tongue of the fish, sucks the blood of the fish, and after the tongue of the fish atrophes, connects the tail with the tongue of the fish, works instead of the tongue, and changes from parasitism to symbiosis. Strictly speaking, it doesn't have full control over the host, but its way of parasitizing is legendary, so it's entirely necessary to give it a place here!
Black-clad turtle ants
Black-clothed turtle ant: A series of wonderful parasitic ecological ring phenomena occur on its body: the parasitic nematodes on its body will make its lower abdomen turn bright red, like ripe berries. Thus tricking the bird into eating the parasite-infested canopy ant. After the birds excrete their droppings, they attract more canopy ants to carry the birds to the ants of the entire family to eat, and then quickly expand the parasitic range. The eggs of ant nematodes turn the belly of black-clothed turtle ants red, exactly the same as birds like to eat berries: Hibadan. It also produces a chemical that forces turtle ants to stagger, move slowly, and raise their belly to attract birds.
Crab slave
Crab slave: It is the culprit of the "crab slave disease" in the aquaculture industry, a parasitic organism that specializes in crabs as its host, not so much crab slaves as "slave crabs", because once it parasitizes successful crabs, it becomes a tool for crab slaves. After mating, the female crab slave will control the crab puppet to find a tall rock to stand on and spray the fertilized egg into the water.
Zombie fungus
Zombie fungus: Mainly parasitic in the ant's body, and cuts off the ant's nervous system, "mind control" it, let it find the next ideal sojourn, kill it immediately, and spread the spores in the new colony. Ants are not the only reservoir for zombie fungi; other insects also fall prey. Such as wasps, crickets, etc.
Flat-headed mud bee
Flat-headed mud bee: Known as nature's "dementor", it is small but able to catch cockroaches much larger than their own size and force them to do what they want. It will pierce the cockroach's brain with a stinging needle, completely control the cockroach, use its tentacles to guide the direction of its prey, follow it back to the nest, and lay eggs in the cockroach's abdomen.
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