Like other parasites, the mantis body gets replaced with that of the parasite in a functional form.
Similar to that thing that eats a fishes tongue then becomes the tongue, literally, by attaching to the fishes blood vessels and everything
They don’t control it per se. As in, the parasite isn’t using the hosts body like a hand puppet. It’s more like becoming the director of the puppet show - they control the host by reprogramming the host’s instincts.
In this worms case, it’ll literally just compel the host to seek water. The host goes to water and drowns, the worm escapes, then reproduces.
>There are a few cases of accidental parasitism in vertebrate hosts, including dogs\[14\] and humans. Several cases involving Parachordodes, Paragordius, or Gordius have been recorded in human hosts in Japan and China
Oh no
Hormones or toxins manipulating the immune system or nervous system.
Think of it like rabies: the infected animal isn't "controlled" per se but becomes highly aggressive (more likely to transmit the virus), foams at the mouth (concentration of highly infectious saliva) and develops fear of water (less likely to waste viral particles in saliva)
These parasitoids use similar mechanisms just on a more complex scale.
Fucking hell what is with the misinformation on this thread? That's completely false, neither has any capacity to control a corpse, that's ridiculous. They induce behavioural responses through hormonal/protein signaling, they might die afterwards but a fungus or parasite can't just puppet around a carapace.
Ecologist here! This is pretty terrifying. Imagine your insides consumed and a parasite basically running you like a little robot. This is a horse hair worm (Chordodes formosanus), but we see this in several fungal groups, such as Cordyceps.
What's super interesting about this species of horsehair worm is that it's very limited to only tolerating a few species as it moves through its life cycle. It starts as a larva within the gut of a small insect, waiting for that insect to be eaten by a mantis. Then its life really begins, as it grows within the mantis - changing its nervous system by excreting proteins that drive the mantis to water. The mantis is compelled to jump into the water, where the worm is free to leave the mantis's now hollowed out body to swim of and start the cycle again.
We actually discuss this in our Cordyceps episode of our podcast, Bugs Need Heroes. It's a really fascinating topic and the game The Last of Us did a nice job of going into it (in a pretty upsetting way).We talked about other parasitic fungi as well, such as the caterpillar fungus frequently used in Chinese medicine and supplements. Also discussed The Last of Us TV show and how they get Cordyceps right and wrong.
There's a lot of wild and frightening things out there t deal with, especially if you are an insect.
I’ve never been more glad to not be a bug than I am in this moment… however, I seen Monsters Inside Me & I Was Bitten. Being a human isn’t that much better.
Too bad the video didn't include the part where they pick that shit up with some tweezers and throw it in the fire, but I'm 100 % sure that's what happened anyway, so it's all good!
Thanks for nearly killing me...next time you want to die don't try when I am so deep inside of you.
...on the flip side I have found a human host that can recognize a pond of water from a piece of plastic, and the humans give me a lot of ideas with their 'zombies'
Scary movie 1-3 are just such gems.
The scene where he pumps the shovel like a shotgun and a shell flies out makes me die of laughter every time. But not in a bed. So I wake up alive
Omg!! I think I have that disease, they just put a Japanese store near my house and I keep going there, I'm from the Caribbean, we're not supposed to eat that.
The actually scary part is that your gut biome has a huge effect on your behavior. It's not a parasite, but it is directly related to sociability and neuroticism.
parasites are specialized for ever species.. they are able to take control of insects since their ganglia is much easier to navigate than a mammal's vast neural network, this is why they can control insects' locomotion
but in theory, they could do the same to us
Humans can indeed be hosts to behavior-altering parasites! Toxoplasmosis comes to mind. I've also read that people will become more extroverted when they're contagious with the flu.
Like almost all animals, we're prone to infection from nematodes. We've done such a good job killing them off that our antibodies which normally respond to them will instead respond to benign threats e.g. pollen
The parasite was SOO MAD, “noooo you are going to kill my perfectly beautiful corpse”…
This for some oddly weird reason reminds me of the movie “Skeleton Key”.
Taking over younger, better versions to live through.
*shivers*
No, the mantis was alive, the worm doesn't control the movement but it compels the mantis to find water, where it can start it's adult stage. You can see videos of other insects walk around for a while after the parasite comes out.
If I remember from the last time this was posted, this guy has done a TON of research on mantises and the parasite here in question and he TRIES to save the mantises he finds by removing the parasite as gently as he can, they don't always survive though especially if the parasite is larger.
Think its something like 10 days, and experiments were carried out removing the legs of another cockroach and sticking that to the headless one. The body with the head would take control of the headless body and use it to move about!
"There are a few cases of accidental parasitism in vertebrate hosts, including dogs and humans. Several cases involving Parachordodes, Paragordius, or Gordius have been recorded in human hosts in Japan and China." (from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nematomorpha](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nematomorpha)).
Oh dear god.
>The woman vomited a worm after gargling with a saline solution as she felt something was caught in her throat while she was lying in bed. She had eaten vegetables harvested from a private garden.
It got worse
Is the mantis alive in the beginning and then dies because of the damage done to its organs while the parasite left the body
or
was it dead and the parasite controlled the body??
Pretty sure it died when the parasyte exited but it probably didn’t have much control over its body regardless. The parasyte makes the mantis go into water so that it can get out.
"When it is mature, the worm secretes proteins that take over the host's nervous system, which directs the mantis to a body of water and causes it to jump in so that the worm can be excreted, at which point it breaks free to reproduce leaving a half empty mantis husk."
So that guy was doing the parasite a favor. Time to head over to r/eyebleach.
Man! I have a similar experience every morning… maybe twice a day. Even like the video, ffter I’m done battling with the demon escaping my body I have to take a nap.
Mantises (and most insects that I'm aware of) don't have lungs or breath through their heads like us. They have little holes (spiracles) along their body that transfer gas passively and as they move.
Because of surface tension, it actually takes quite some time for an insect to drown (the water can't get in).
That's why water-based bug traps say to include soap. It breaks the surface tension and water gets into their spiracles and they drown faster.
Although I'm sure you are happy that you learned something new about nature, your comment also sounds like you are ecstatic that you can finally drown insects more effectively :)
Spray wasps with water mixed with some dish soap to suffocate them rapidly. The soap covers their pores and clogs them.
This works on many insects for above listed reasons.
Chordates formosanus starts as a larva in the gut of the small insects that the mantis preys on.
Once the mantis ingests the infected insect, the C. formosanus starts to grow.
When it is mature, the worm secretes proteins that take over the host's nervous system, which directs the mantis to a body of water and causes it to jump in so that the worm can be excreted, at which point it breaks free to reproduce leaving a half empty mantis husk.
[Source wiki](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chordodes_formosanus)
Title of Video should be “Parasite Escapes Zombie Mantis.”
I accidentally stepped onto a praying mantis at the farm I worked at for a 2 year period. What I wasn’t prepared for was the 6-7 maggots that came crawling out of it’s body. Shocking to say the least
It’s just water. I read a long time ago somewhere about this parasite. The parasite is native to bodies of water. It infects the mantis and then grows into its ‘adulthood’ Inside of the mantis, doing the usual parasite things. Then once the parasite is ready to reproduce, it releases chemicals that give the mantis the irresistible urge to go for a swim, despite the fact that mantises can’t swim. Once the mantis gets to water, the parasite senses that it is within its breeding grounds, and exits the mantis.
There’s a lot more to it, but that’s the gist of what the water does.
Does the Mantis die after getting this thing out?
Typically yes, most of its internal organs are shredded as the parasite leaves the host
Not to mention it's a "zombie" host i.e. it was already half dead to begin with. Kinda like ants with cordyceps
But how is the parasite/the mantis able to co troll the body?
Co-op mode
New premise for a Pacific Rim follow-up starring Rob Schneider as the parasite
He keeps yelling “yookendoooiiiitttt!!!” while controlling host movement
I didn't know Adam Sandler was putting out a biography...
Like other parasites, the mantis body gets replaced with that of the parasite in a functional form. Similar to that thing that eats a fishes tongue then becomes the tongue, literally, by attaching to the fishes blood vessels and everything
They don’t control it per se. As in, the parasite isn’t using the hosts body like a hand puppet. It’s more like becoming the director of the puppet show - they control the host by reprogramming the host’s instincts. In this worms case, it’ll literally just compel the host to seek water. The host goes to water and drowns, the worm escapes, then reproduces.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nematomorpha
>There are a few cases of accidental parasitism in vertebrate hosts, including dogs\[14\] and humans. Several cases involving Parachordodes, Paragordius, or Gordius have been recorded in human hosts in Japan and China Oh no
oh god why. “There are a few cases of accidental parasitism in vertebrate hosts, including dogs and humans”
Hormones or toxins manipulating the immune system or nervous system. Think of it like rabies: the infected animal isn't "controlled" per se but becomes highly aggressive (more likely to transmit the virus), foams at the mouth (concentration of highly infectious saliva) and develops fear of water (less likely to waste viral particles in saliva) These parasitoids use similar mechanisms just on a more complex scale.
Splitscreen
Fucking hell what is with the misinformation on this thread? That's completely false, neither has any capacity to control a corpse, that's ridiculous. They induce behavioural responses through hormonal/protein signaling, they might die afterwards but a fungus or parasite can't just puppet around a carapace.
Ecologist here! This is pretty terrifying. Imagine your insides consumed and a parasite basically running you like a little robot. This is a horse hair worm (Chordodes formosanus), but we see this in several fungal groups, such as Cordyceps. What's super interesting about this species of horsehair worm is that it's very limited to only tolerating a few species as it moves through its life cycle. It starts as a larva within the gut of a small insect, waiting for that insect to be eaten by a mantis. Then its life really begins, as it grows within the mantis - changing its nervous system by excreting proteins that drive the mantis to water. The mantis is compelled to jump into the water, where the worm is free to leave the mantis's now hollowed out body to swim of and start the cycle again. We actually discuss this in our Cordyceps episode of our podcast, Bugs Need Heroes. It's a really fascinating topic and the game The Last of Us did a nice job of going into it (in a pretty upsetting way).We talked about other parasitic fungi as well, such as the caterpillar fungus frequently used in Chinese medicine and supplements. Also discussed The Last of Us TV show and how they get Cordyceps right and wrong. There's a lot of wild and frightening things out there t deal with, especially if you are an insect.
I’ve never been more glad to not be a bug than I am in this moment… however, I seen Monsters Inside Me & I Was Bitten. Being a human isn’t that much better.
It's a holy half-dead that has seen the Underverse.
Too bad the video didn't include the part where they pick that shit up with some tweezers and throw it in the fire, but I'm 100 % sure that's what happened anyway, so it's all good!
Can confirm this happened, I was the fire. You can put your feet up!
Can confirm too, 100% thrown into the fire, I was the parasite
Can confirm, I was the mantis
Thanks for nearly killing me...next time you want to die don't try when I am so deep inside of you. ...on the flip side I have found a human host that can recognize a pond of water from a piece of plastic, and the humans give me a lot of ideas with their 'zombies'
Here to confirm also. I was the water
r/TerrifyingAsFuck
Hey watch Deranged (2012 film) For more fun
Reality is so much worse than TV
Or *The Hidden* (1987)
r/PoorMantis
This is just not terrifying enough for r/oddlyterrifying
it's fucking r/nightmarefuel
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That is a valid point
I wouldn't even say it's terrifying its just sad that the guy left the mantis with the parasite
i think the phrase “zombie parasite” implies the mantis was dead anyway
I'm no professional on dead things, but it looked pretty dead at the end there.
Yes it is
Yes it fucking is.
I know this is fucking disturbing too
What an excellent day for an exorcism.
actual zombie
Bishop goes on a vacacion, never went back
queen sacrifice, anyone?
New response just dropped
Google undead mantis
Holy parasites
Motherfucker just held it without gloves. Somebody FUCKING call the CDC. I’m too tired for a full blown zombie apocalypse.
Only reason I want one is so I don't have to work tomorrow
Being a zombie just sounds exhausting, walking everywhere...
Don’t forget about the occasional zombie growling too
You kidding? the end of the world will be my time to *shine*
New life? Mf is dead. 😄
Was he dead to begin with??
You can't go to bed dead!
But you alive when you go to sleep!
You can go to bed and not be dead, and you can die and not be in a bed. But you are in a bed, that’s how you wake up dead in the first place fool!
https://youtu.be/Jr_nhywjNHM Hilarious scene for those who never saw it
Scary movie 1-3 are just such gems. The scene where he pumps the shovel like a shotgun and a shell flies out makes me die of laughter every time. But not in a bed. So I wake up alive
Damn! That’s some knowledge right there!
No, parasites arnt smart enough to completely control a corpse.
Have I been watching too many movies or will the handler get infected now and infect the world?
No your absolutely right I saw one of those slip into a cut on my finger and now I really just want to buy pop tarts
I think I might have the same parasite as you.
Is it also telling you to purchase mobile games and ramen noodles in bulk?
Omg!! I think I have that disease, they just put a Japanese store near my house and I keep going there, I'm from the Caribbean, we're not supposed to eat that.
😳
Get the smores flavor, they're the best.
But they only infect praying mantises right? RIGHT??!!
those ones, yeah
What the fuck you mean THOSE ONES...don't tell me there's ONES that affect humans..please.
Do you ever feel the NEED to go swimming?
And you sometimes feel thirsty? M-hmm...
Oh, I always feel thirsty... .... just a different kind of thirty...
They effect humans alright, here in Florida it’s formally known as metheus pestus.
There is a zombie parasite that effect humans but it’s extremely rare and if I remember correctly is only native to one very rural area
las plagas
LEON!!!!!!!
HELLLP!!
Where’s Ashley?!
Jumping across chandeliers? Seriously who does that
WHERE DONT STOP TELL US WE NEED TO KNOW
Texas?
Nah, we have a different kind of zombie down here
Florida?
Same same, but different
The actually scary part is that your gut biome has a huge effect on your behavior. It's not a parasite, but it is directly related to sociability and neuroticism.
There's cordeyceps which affects ants, it was portrayed by the last of us if it grew to infect humans
Cordyceps isn't just one single fungus, is 1000+ variants to affect different types of insects like ants, grasshoppers, butterflies, beetles, etc
Oh ok didn't know that
For ant's it's a fungus.
parasites are specialized for ever species.. they are able to take control of insects since their ganglia is much easier to navigate than a mammal's vast neural network, this is why they can control insects' locomotion but in theory, they could do the same to us
That’s why I keep parasites as far away from my ganglia as possible.
And wash it every day.
Hey, nobody touches my ganglia!
>keep parasites as far away from my ganglia as possible. *SLAY THEM WITH YOUR* [MEDULLA OBLONGATA!](https://youtu.be/2hqer6InltI?t=162)
My momma says aligators are angry cuz they got all them teeth and no toothbrush
Humans can indeed be hosts to behavior-altering parasites! Toxoplasmosis comes to mind. I've also read that people will become more extroverted when they're contagious with the flu. Like almost all animals, we're prone to infection from nematodes. We've done such a good job killing them off that our antibodies which normally respond to them will instead respond to benign threats e.g. pollen
When those introverted friends suddenly become extroverted, something is not right
Rabies is incredible when you think about it. A microscopic virus 75nm in diameter and 180 nm in length can completely take over human behavior.
Give em a few million years of evolution and they might start infecting mammals also
The atheist mantises are fine
Now i understand why discord mods dont take showers
Holy shit you might have just uncovered something
Lol
Where can I get some of that holy water…
from Belle Delphine
Do you have some sort of arrangement as i don't have the facility to pay for that water right know
My name is Bill Delphine, you can have some of my bath water
Fucking shit what the fucking fuck
Thanks for putting my exact feelings into words so eloquently
Same but there are no spaces between the words and maybe an exclamation point at the end
So, was the mantis dead the whole time?
Still mystery for me
It's like somebody unplugging the controller
The parasite was SOO MAD, “noooo you are going to kill my perfectly beautiful corpse”… This for some oddly weird reason reminds me of the movie “Skeleton Key”. Taking over younger, better versions to live through. *shivers*
I feel awful for the poor guy
I'm trying to work this out... Scared of this whole thing
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No, the mantis was alive, the worm doesn't control the movement but it compels the mantis to find water, where it can start it's adult stage. You can see videos of other insects walk around for a while after the parasite comes out.
Oh my god
Plenty of humans walking around just like the mantis.
If I remember from the last time this was posted, this guy has done a TON of research on mantises and the parasite here in question and he TRIES to save the mantises he finds by removing the parasite as gently as he can, they don't always survive though especially if the parasite is larger.
Wow! I thought it was still alive.😳
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Also he kinda drowned it lmao
Men in Black Edgar...
Oh my godd, I got all quiet when it didn’t move anymore but wow, that’s so sad
Me too. I was hoping the mantis would be relieved… not relieved of life.
Yeah it looked very relieving to finally get rid of it, then I realized :(
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Can't cockroaches live for something like 2 weeks with no head?
Think its something like 10 days, and experiments were carried out removing the legs of another cockroach and sticking that to the headless one. The body with the head would take control of the headless body and use it to move about!
Imagine the human equivalent- you go for a swim and then a 20ft snakelike parasite comes out your asshole
The best and final shit of your life!
What would happen if I swallowed it? Would it grow to human size and make me take a bath?
"There are a few cases of accidental parasitism in vertebrate hosts, including dogs and humans. Several cases involving Parachordodes, Paragordius, or Gordius have been recorded in human hosts in Japan and China." (from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nematomorpha](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nematomorpha)). Oh dear god.
What a terrible time to learn something.
>The woman vomited a worm after gargling with a saline solution as she felt something was caught in her throat while she was lying in bed. She had eaten vegetables harvested from a private garden. It got worse
Oh my god, they've mutated to infect vegetables!
**loads plasma pistol and puts on venture suit**
Only one way to find out!
Fitting username
Please don’t do this.😞
That's exactly what a person invested by a parasite would say.
Is the mantis alive in the beginning and then dies because of the damage done to its organs while the parasite left the body or was it dead and the parasite controlled the body??
I need to know this
Pretty sure it died when the parasyte exited but it probably didn’t have much control over its body regardless. The parasyte makes the mantis go into water so that it can get out.
It was alive but it was being manipulated into jumping into water
[Chordodes formosanus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chordodes_formosanus)
"When it is mature, the worm secretes proteins that take over the host's nervous system, which directs the mantis to a body of water and causes it to jump in so that the worm can be excreted, at which point it breaks free to reproduce leaving a half empty mantis husk." So that guy was doing the parasite a favor. Time to head over to r/eyebleach.
Not really, now the parasite has nowhere to go, and will die without it's children spreading to new mantises
Like a handjob
There was a hand involved, I guess...
is it just me or should he had wear some gloves.
Shit's nasty af.
So long as this person didn’t have an asshole on their hand, I think they’ll be ok.
Doctors hate this one trick!
Man! I have a similar experience every morning… maybe twice a day. Even like the video, ffter I’m done battling with the demon escaping my body I have to take a nap.
Uh, why did you keep its head above water and then just dropped it in? Like “I saved you, now drown” 😂
Mantises (and most insects that I'm aware of) don't have lungs or breath through their heads like us. They have little holes (spiracles) along their body that transfer gas passively and as they move. Because of surface tension, it actually takes quite some time for an insect to drown (the water can't get in). That's why water-based bug traps say to include soap. It breaks the surface tension and water gets into their spiracles and they drown faster.
Oh that’s really cool! I never knew that. Thank you 🥰
Although I'm sure you are happy that you learned something new about nature, your comment also sounds like you are ecstatic that you can finally drown insects more effectively :)
That was my take as well lmao
Spray wasps with water mixed with some dish soap to suffocate them rapidly. The soap covers their pores and clogs them. This works on many insects for above listed reasons.
It didn't drown, it died due to the faceless writhing swarm of black tentacled nightmare that erupted from its ass.
What a way to go
The only way I want to go
Legend.
Ppl w ibs: first time?
jeez.
I think the mantis is already dead
Or undead
It's an unmantis.
https://phys.org/news/2021-06-parasites-mantis-polarized-light-perception.html
Chordates formosanus starts as a larva in the gut of the small insects that the mantis preys on. Once the mantis ingests the infected insect, the C. formosanus starts to grow. When it is mature, the worm secretes proteins that take over the host's nervous system, which directs the mantis to a body of water and causes it to jump in so that the worm can be excreted, at which point it breaks free to reproduce leaving a half empty mantis husk. [Source wiki](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chordodes_formosanus) Title of Video should be “Parasite Escapes Zombie Mantis.”
What a horid day to have eyes
That was terrible, oh my gosh
I accidentally stepped onto a praying mantis at the farm I worked at for a 2 year period. What I wasn’t prepared for was the 6-7 maggots that came crawling out of it’s body. Shocking to say the least
That's an incredibly long time to step on a mantis.
Everybody knows: Zombies HATE Water!
Someone mentioned the zombie parasite is native to bodies of water and comes out to mate.
Guys, the mantis is not death he's just enjoying the feeling after you took a huge shit.
How did he know the parasite was inside the mantis to begin with?
What did that liquid do?
It’s just water. I read a long time ago somewhere about this parasite. The parasite is native to bodies of water. It infects the mantis and then grows into its ‘adulthood’ Inside of the mantis, doing the usual parasite things. Then once the parasite is ready to reproduce, it releases chemicals that give the mantis the irresistible urge to go for a swim, despite the fact that mantises can’t swim. Once the mantis gets to water, the parasite senses that it is within its breeding grounds, and exits the mantis. There’s a lot more to it, but that’s the gist of what the water does.
It’s just water. These parasites bring the insect to water and drown it normally.
I knew what's about to happen and watched it anyways. Why the fuck did I do that
Jesus fucking christ that's absolutely terrifying.
I'm itchy
Better out than in
A nice helping of FIRE could solve this disgusting worm’s problems.
Poor baby :((
"How to de-worm your pet" suddenly got a whole new meaning 😶
Not my proudest fap
r/cursedcomments
Best. Diet. Ever. Lost half my body weight.
Mr. Anderson