Colorful snails suddenly appear in the wild, behave strangely and seek their own death, and the culprit is it
Parasites are ubiquitous in nature, whether it is plants or animals, whether it is other animals or humans, there will always be parasites found. However, due to the environment in which human beings live, it has been greatly improved. The harm of humans suffering from parasites has been greatly reduced, but there are also some parasites, most of which do not have much impact on people's bodies. Many people have experienced the power of parasites when watching movies, like what clematis invaded, in fact, the parasites in life are not so terrible, but the harm is not to be underestimated. Most of the harm that parasites bring to us is that our friends should no longer fantasize about becoming superpowers like venom.
Recently a netizen found a snail in the wild, some people say that it is not a snail? What's the fuss, but what is different is that this is a colored snail, which is very different from the snail we usually see, and when this netizen posted the photo on the Internet, some people told everyone that this snail was actually possessed by a parasite.
The ordinary snail body is not colored, but milky white. The snail turned pink, and the tentacles became different from those of ordinary snails, just like in the picture, it is more appropriate to say "horns" than tentacles. This snail with colored "horns" is constantly squirming, and the painting style is extremely strange, making people feel that it is a poisonous pest at first glance. However, netizens pointed out that this is indeed an ordinary snail, but this snail is controlled by parasites, it is a zombie snail controlled by parasites, which sounds really chilling.
This parasite is called colored cricket fluke, also known as double disc fluke, which can be said to be the natural enemy of snails, mainly distributed in Some regions such as Europe, South Asia and Southeast Asia. Scientists have noticed the parasite a century ago, but it has only recently been proven that the parasite can manipulate the brain of its host, that is, it can manipulate the brain of a snail.
This parasite usually enters the snail with food, parasitizes within the snail's digestive system, forms a tail clyps, and then invades the snail's antennae, somehow causing the snail to crawl to the high or bright place of the plant, and after being controlled by this insect, the crawling speed is far greater than that of normal snails. Relying on the snail's squirming and bright color to successfully attract birds to prey on and parasitize in the bird's body, the eggs laid are sent out by the birds and then eaten by the snails to form a vicious circle.
There are many parasites in nature, these parasites are some simple inferior organisms, the body structure is relatively simple, can not survive independently, can only parasitize in other animals, but this parasitic mechanism is very scary. This is also why people hate parasites very much, so they must pay attention to hygiene, wash their hands before eating, and eat food thoroughly. The old proverb of sickness from the mouth is extremely reasonable.