<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > preface</h1>
Introduction: Clematis, parasitic praying mantis in the body, control its consciousness to drive it to commit suicide, why is it so powerful?
Praying mantis Is a very powerful small insect, although their size is not large, but there are two "big sickles", which also makes it invincible among many insects, not only will not be afraid of all kinds of insects of the same level, even some frogs, small snakes and other animals larger than it, they will not pay attention to them.
The ancients of our country have long discovered the potential of the mantis to burst out, and even invented a martial art, which has appeared in many films, television and literary works.
But as the old saying goes: one thing drops one thing. Although the praying mantis is still powerful, it will be easily manipulated by a parasite to become a "walking dead". After sucking the nutrients in the mantis's body, the mantis must be driven to the water source to drown itself. And this terrible bug is clematis, do you know how terrible clematis really is?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > an introduction to clematis</h1>
For parasites, I believe that everyone is afraid, but in life, it is often inevitable to encounter them. There are many types of parasites, and bugs that get nutrients from their hosts and rely on their hosts for survival and reproduction can be called parasites
Back to the point, let's move on to clematis. I believe that many rural children, when they were young, often found a kind of black-brown bugs as thin as hair in water sources such as ponds, ditches, canals and reservoirs, which they were active in the water, and they could not see which was the head and which was the tail.
Because this bug is as thin as a hair, and it is also very hard. When I was a child, some rural babies would also use stones to smash it and pull it hard, but it was difficult to tear it off, even if the stone was smashed back and forth, it could not hurt it. It is also for this reason that it got its name "Clematis".
I really admire the courage of the children at that time, and actually play with clematis as a toy. Later, after I watched the Korean horror film "Clematis Invasion", I remembered that there was a bit of scalp tingling, which may really be "ignorant fearless".
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" >Why do praying mantises basically have clematis in their bodies? </h1>
Clematis, also known as the hair-shaped snake, does resemble a shrunken version of the snake in the water, and when it twists and looks, it gives you goosebumps. In some places it is also called capillary worm, copper wire snake or tencel. It is the same as roundworms and toxoplasma gondii, but it is of the genus Clematis, and there are more than 300 species of this insect in the world.
Adult clematis live mainly in fresh water, but some also in seawater. Their larvae are mainly parasitic in arthropods, such as mantises, stone moths, locusts and other arthropods will have some clematis larvae, because these animals need to drink water, and clematis eggs are laid in many water sources.
The reason why the mantis has the most in the body is mainly because the praying mantis is really too powerful, it can kill most of the arthropods, and they have clematis larvae in their bodies, which are eaten by the mantis and parasitize into its body.
Since clematis lay their eggs in water, when people drink raw water with clematis eggs, or when their lower bodies come into direct contact with contaminated water, their eggs will also enter the human body and treat humans as hosts. But don't be frightened by the movie "Clematis Invasion", clematis can not control humans, let alone drive people to drink water. However, it is also very harmful to people, causing abdominal pain, stomach pain, urine stinging and so on. In severe cases, it will also drill out of the eyes and ears.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > Why can clematis manipulate praying mantises? </h1>
Although clematis also parasitize the bodies of other arthropods, they do not drive them to commit suicide, and the most depressed are praying mantises, sucking their nutrients, and finally forcing them to drown themselves at the water source, and then they crawl out of the stomach.
There is no accurate conclusion about this confusing behavior of the clematis. Some people think that after the eggs of clematis hatch in the mantis, they will absorb a lot of water from the mantis because its adults like to live in water. Therefore, the praying mantis lacks water in its body, and out of instinct, it goes to the water source. When they reach their destination, the clematis in their bodies begin to emerge from their bodies, and the praying mantis is declared dead.
There is also another view, saying that clematis will secrete a special substance, it will mess up the order of protein synthesis of the mantis itself, so that the mantis under the action of this substance, uncontrollably go to the water's edge to commit suicide, so as to facilitate their smooth breakout, and a new round of spawning, hatching and parasitism.
Clematis are distributed in most of the water sources in the countryside, and everyone sees it in the wild, or stay away. Especially when drinking raw water, be careful. There are animal carcasses near the water source, which usually have clematis eggs, and such water should be heated as much as possible before drinking. In addition, its eggs will also parasitize in some fish and shrimp, field snails, and river mussels, so eating these aquatic products must also be cooked in the place of origin.