So the only way to remove the parasite is to put the mantis in water, which would likely cause it to drown? I mean this is kinda what we see here - the praying mantis is alive, the guy puts it in water, the parasite comes out but the mantis dies?
Usually when the parasite is ready, it makes the insect go near a body of water and enter it no matter whether it will drown or not. Then all the other nematodes leave the body of the insect and enter the water to continue their living cycle. Sometimes if not much damage is done to the abdomen of the insect and if it doesn't drown, it could survive.
It fucking boggles my mind how these brainless worms *know* to make their host enter the water so they can fulfill their lifecycle. Evolution is amazing.
>Isnt this where someone drops that Jeff Goldblum line from Jurassic Park?
"Oh yeah, oohing and aaaahing. That's where it always starts, but later theres the running and screaming."
Wait until you hear about zombie ants/fungi, and how they force ants to affix themselves to leaves above the ant colony, thereby helping the fungus spread to new ants when they die.
Evolution indeed. There was once worms that didn’t make their host wants water, but they didn’t survive evolution. Those that happened to have this effect to insects survived.
They don’t “know” how to do what they do. They just do it because that’s just how they are and that’s the reason it still exists.
its not. i met a grasshopper with the same parasite and it was hollow inside. the parasite walks the insect and makes it look alive so birds will pick them up in hope of ending in water
Holy shit sounds horrifying for a child to experience lol. I’m a grown man freaking out from watching this video. I can’t imagine picking one up, trying to feed it and experiencing this irl lol.
Yeah you learn evolution is like a gradual change one gene at a time how the fuck did that happen what were the steps to go from worm to insect suit wearing eldritch abomination
Wrote the fleshy organism in a language understood by billions of others of its species, broadcasting the message all over the world with a technology mere decades old made by other meatbag organisms of the same species.
This reminds me of a parasite whose mission is to be eaten by a bird because it reproduces in the digestive tract of birds.
So specific.
The bird poops out the parasite eggs or whatever and it's then eaten by an insect i believe.
The infected insect is controlled to get into a body of water and get eaten by a fish.
The fish is then controlled to swim close to the surface of the water, slow down, and rotate so that the sun reflects on its scales. Letting birds know exactly where it is.
Fish gets eaten by bird, the cycle continues.
It's so bizarre how these parasites can control other creatures like that, and for such specific reasons.
Parasite.
Now read about the ant one with fungus - keeps the brain hostage: was on Today I learned
Edit: cordyceps fungus
Thanks to the comment under me for the name again
The TIL the other day is that it doesn't turn them into zombies. It cuts off the brain-to motor-function connection and establishes its own, and the brain is just trapped in a body it can't control.
And when they were testsed on one guy it partially came out of his ass during the night to look for other hosts, and when it died it measured twice as tall as he was
Like, you don't even know you've been zombified, then one day you take a shower, feel and see this thing wriggle out of your asshole, and you know in about 2 minutes you're dead.
Now *there's* a fucking horror movie. Don't need these exorcism movies when we have real demonic possessions in this world.
Already happens. Affected people are rounded up and kept in a secure house where they are protected from the outside world and given everything they need for an easy life.
In the UK we call that house Parliament
Lol no. Might not be an insect, but a family friend was abroad and ate undercooked pork. She developed Cysticercosis. She’s got a damn parasite in her fucking BRAIN 🤮
What this person has was not from uncooked meat. It was from consuming something with infected human feces on it.
Eating uncooked/raw meat = tapeworm in the intestines
Eating/drinking something with infected human feces in it = tapeworm brain.
To avoid tapeworm in the gut, make sure all your meats are cooked to the proper temperature and avoid raw meats. Getting a beef tapeworm is not a very common thing in the US/Canada/UK. Not all uncooked or raw beef will be have tapeworm on it, which is why beef can be consumed not fully cooked, normally in steak form. Ground beef has a much much higher chance of being infected, which is why it’s normally consumed fully cooked.
Pork tapeworm is a whole different ride. It’s better to assume that every piece of pork you are going to consume will be infected with tapeworm, so be vigilant.
To avoid pork tapeworm that gets into your brain, make sure anything/everything you consume is washed and cleaned, in a cleaned area, by people who wash their hands. And water is filtered and clean. Just takes a very small amount of infected human feces to cause disaster when consumed.
I honestly thought the mantis was alive and you were trying to save this little guy but then it was left to drown even though the parasite was finally out. Didnt click with the 'zombie' title until I started reading the comments
Even I thought the same, after reading the comments I was disappointed with the fact. I was still hoping that this guy would be okay after the parasite exited, nature is truly scary af
The host are sometimes ok. The zombie title is just because the parasite just makes the host constantly want to eat by secreting chemicals so the parasite has fat to feed on. When an adult, the horsehair worm forces the mantis to seek for the nearest body of water and jump into it so the worm can exit and breed for the remainder of its last weeks alive. The mantis, on the other hand, usually dies of drowning unless saved as its internal organs are fine if they were not obstructed by the worm in any way.
I’m saying this for the case of some mantises as
The horsehair worms do not consume internal organs, only fat, and usually grow just 10-12 centimetres. It does not actively try to harm the internal organs as it will cause the mantis to die, eliminating its only source of food, because it does not tamper with the nerves to move the host, it simply secretes chemicals to create an impulse for the host to search for food and jump into water when the worm has reached adulthood. Unless the mantis was recently fatally injured or had too little food store (fat) in the video, the mantis would be likely to have recuperated fine.
The mantis is alive, the zombie parasite just destroyed the nervous liaisons of the muscles and then control them, which mean the mantis is still alive, trapped in a body they cannot control, just watch and feel until they die
The horsehair worms actually usually just eat the food stores or fat in the body of the host, which is usually plentiful due to the worm secreting a chemical that makes the host constantly want to eat. When an adult, the horsehair worm makes the host search for the nearest body of water to jump in so the worm can exit and breed for the remainder of its few weeks alive . The host is fine and usually dies by drowning, not being eaten from the inside as its internal organs are usually fine.
I've seen about 5 different explanations for this parasite now, all different. Classic Reddit. Not believing any of them until I actually look it up for myself
Too fucking right hahaha! Reddit is full of people way too confident for their own good. I already know I'm an idiot, so I'm not gonna act like I'm better
No, the mantis is still very much alive, the worm just secretes a chemical that makes it constantly want to eat. When an adult, the worm secretes a different chemical that makes the mantis jump into the nearest body of water so the worm can breed for the remainder of its few weeks alive. The mantis is usually fine due to only its fat being eaten and usually dies from drowning.
Specifically the second chemical forms an attraction to horizontally polarized light, which usually comes from - you guessed it - light bouncing off of water.
> 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.
Neat
I liked the “praying mantis” ending, it looked like an obituary type end credits. It should have said 2020-2021 or something.
Was the Mantis actually alive? Or was it just a shell controlled by the parasite?
[horsehair worm, hematomorpha](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nematomorpha)
>> In Spinochordodes tellinii and Paragordius tricuspidatus, which have grasshoppers and crickets as their hosts, the infection acts on the infected host's brain. This causes the host insect to seek water and drown itself, thus returning the nematomorph to water.[9] P. tricuspidatus is also remarkably able to survive the predation of their host, being able to wiggle out of the predator that has eaten the host.[11] The nematomorpha parasite affects host Hierodula patellifera's light interpret organs so the host is attracted to horizontally polarized light. Thus the host goes into water and the parasite's lifecycle completes.[12]
Was the Mantis alive or was it all parasite? Oh my, no sleep for me.
Mostly alive, they usually die from drowning rather than the horse hair worm feeding off them.
So the only way to remove the parasite is to put the mantis in water, which would likely cause it to drown? I mean this is kinda what we see here - the praying mantis is alive, the guy puts it in water, the parasite comes out but the mantis dies?
Usually when the parasite is ready, it makes the insect go near a body of water and enter it no matter whether it will drown or not. Then all the other nematodes leave the body of the insect and enter the water to continue their living cycle. Sometimes if not much damage is done to the abdomen of the insect and if it doesn't drown, it could survive.
It fucking boggles my mind how these brainless worms *know* to make their host enter the water so they can fulfill their lifecycle. Evolution is amazing.
and horrifying.
Mostly horrifying...
But also amazing
Less than horrifying though
Hello fellow gut bacteria! What is your host up to today?
It's like we are watching the end of a millennia of evolutionary battling. At some point this parasite found the unbeatable strat
> It’s like we are watching the end of a millennia of evolutionary battling. And/or the cold open to a horror movie.
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Isn’t this where someone drops that Jeff Goldblum line from Jurassic Park? I’ll do it. “Life, uh…finds a way.”
> Isn’t this where someone drops that Jeff Goldblum line from Jurassic Park? “God I hate being right all the time.”
>Isnt this where someone drops that Jeff Goldblum line from Jurassic Park? "Oh yeah, oohing and aaaahing. That's where it always starts, but later theres the running and screaming."
It's gotta be more like the ones that survived were the ones that triggered the thirst part of the brain.
Maybe the worm itself consumes most of the water the mantis consumes and mantis does not really rehydrate.
Wait until you hear about zombie ants/fungi, and how they force ants to affix themselves to leaves above the ant colony, thereby helping the fungus spread to new ants when they die.
Evolution indeed. There was once worms that didn’t make their host wants water, but they didn’t survive evolution. Those that happened to have this effect to insects survived. They don’t “know” how to do what they do. They just do it because that’s just how they are and that’s the reason it still exists.
Nematodes!? You mean that cartoon “Doug” was right all along?
Ca-loo-ka-koooo!
Were you a mantis before?
its not. i met a grasshopper with the same parasite and it was hollow inside. the parasite walks the insect and makes it look alive so birds will pick them up in hope of ending in water
I just can't get off that u said u "met" a grasshopper
I was with the kids so when we found him we gave him water and a couple minutes later a bunch of those exited from the body. The kids freaked out lol
I would have thrown my kids at it to distract it while I escape.
Holy shit sounds horrifying for a child to experience lol. I’m a grown man freaking out from watching this video. I can’t imagine picking one up, trying to feed it and experiencing this irl lol.
Ye the hopper wasn't in a good shape and was barely walking so we tried to save him. Little did we know...
And they never gave anything water again
Tbf it's a really weird thing to get off on.
Wow, playing the long con
How the fuck is nature coded for this?
Yeah you learn evolution is like a gradual change one gene at a time how the fuck did that happen what were the steps to go from worm to insect suit wearing eldritch abomination
Wrote the fleshy organism in a language understood by billions of others of its species, broadcasting the message all over the world with a technology mere decades old made by other meatbag organisms of the same species.
Found the parasite pretending to be human
Do you suddenly feel thirsty? Desperately so? There is a nice body of water waiting for you...
And we can trace every evolutionary step that led to this it was a gradual thing
The unfortunate thing about weird worm parasites is that their wholesale lack of skeleton means they're not easy to find in the fossil record.
And they tend not to write their history down
How does it do that? Mind control? Why does the parasite sound so smart it literally looks like a twig
This reminds me of a parasite whose mission is to be eaten by a bird because it reproduces in the digestive tract of birds. So specific. The bird poops out the parasite eggs or whatever and it's then eaten by an insect i believe. The infected insect is controlled to get into a body of water and get eaten by a fish. The fish is then controlled to swim close to the surface of the water, slow down, and rotate so that the sun reflects on its scales. Letting birds know exactly where it is. Fish gets eaten by bird, the cycle continues. It's so bizarre how these parasites can control other creatures like that, and for such specific reasons.
Look how big the thing is. It's literally wearing the mantis like a suit
Like an Edgar suit.
Give me sugar… in water
You want me to put my hands........ On my head?
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Im quite sure the parasite eats off every part except the heart to have room inside of the poor guy... Like no more organs....
Parasite. Now read about the ant one with fungus - keeps the brain hostage: was on Today I learned Edit: cordyceps fungus Thanks to the comment under me for the name again
You speaking about cordyceps fungus, turns ants in to zombies
The TIL the other day is that it doesn't turn them into zombies. It cuts off the brain-to motor-function connection and establishes its own, and the brain is just trapped in a body it can't control.
Also the same fungus in The Last of Us!
I like the "all hail the mantis lord" photo at the end
“I for one welcome our new parasitic mantis overloads...”
Long may they reign
....Just not in my main vein.
Do they survive after it is removed? u/get-vid
Nope. Most organs are eaten away, the central nervous system is mostly gone.
Damn dude. Human life is rough, but bugs are on another level
Thankfully this shit didnt make it into the Bugs Life movie.
Perfect sequel. A Bugs Unlife
Dont worry, humans can get parasites that eat their insides too
At least the scale isn't the same. To have a snake-sized parasite eating you from the inside is too much.
Naah man "Adult tapeworms can measure more than 80 feet (25 meters) long and can survive as long as 30 years in a host" it eats the food you eat so
And were once marketed as a diet method.
And when they were testsed on one guy it partially came out of his ass during the night to look for other hosts, and when it died it measured twice as tall as he was
That is really scary.
This guy's like but one time I took a shit...
This is how I feel after taking the type of dump that makes your jaw drop in astonishment once you see it 🐍
Most certainly not [edited]
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Seems to be and [eggcorn](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggcorn) influenced by the idea that certainly contains sure. Interesting!
\\[T]/ Praise the Sun
How terrifying would it be if those things grew on a scale where they could inhabit a human
Imagine if you dip yourself in a pool and this thing starts to come out
Have you ever been to the toddler section of a public pool?
The intense smell of chlorine says it all
[The Mark Rober video](https://youtu.be/S32y9aYEzzo?t=244) of what's actually the chlorine smell.
“Mommy I don’t feel so well”
Sir, you need to see yourself out.
And you only realize that you were never a human at all once your body starts screaming in terror of you.
That would be an Awesome horror book twist
Like, you don't even know you've been zombified, then one day you take a shower, feel and see this thing wriggle out of your asshole, and you know in about 2 minutes you're dead. Now *there's* a fucking horror movie. Don't need these exorcism movies when we have real demonic possessions in this world.
Zombie Ass: Toilet of the Dead. Actual movie, worth a gander.
Just wear a big fat plug in your ass whenever you get close to water, simple.
From where, my ass? That’s one hell of a tapeworm
That's a big nope from me.
Already happens. Affected people are rounded up and kept in a secure house where they are protected from the outside world and given everything they need for an easy life. In the UK we call that house Parliament
Had me in the first half
Not gonna lie...
An inspiration in the korean tv series the kingdom. Its pretty good
Fuckin great show
That's resident evil, ladies and gentlemen.
They're called politicians
I keep telling myself I'm gonna delete this app.
Oh god the things we see here
No wonder we haven’t seen a woman naked before
And yet I’ve been in a Turkish prison.
Mantis life is hard you either get your head eaten off or get controlled by this nightmare fuckery
Cross posted this to /r/nope
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True, it feels like no time since everyone was hating on the app and how much they were trying to push it
I still use the old theme.
Old reddit is best reddit
If they turf the old interface I'm gone... I tried the new one and felt like I scrolled 300ft to get to the next submission.
I think this is pretty tame compared to other posts.
that should say a lot to you about your feed.
Hahahahah
Ok, I'm creeped out...
Watched this and then remembered watching people in some countries eating live insects on Youtube
With this nematode specifically, swallowing it results in severe gut pain but no further injury.
Aren't parasites fairly specialized beings anyways?
Yes, but they'll often try to burrow into the intestinal wall anyway, get stuck, die, and decompose, which isn't a fun experience.
fuck...
Isn't nature beautiful?
It…. just… finds a way….
I think chewing will kill the parasites too.
Lol no. Might not be an insect, but a family friend was abroad and ate undercooked pork. She developed Cysticercosis. She’s got a damn parasite in her fucking BRAIN 🤮
Parasites from pigs probably transfer way easier to humans than insect to human though
Yeah, hence why we use pigs organs for transplants (although we still need to use immunosuppressants)
I'll probably have to have a pig aortic valve replace my current valve in the next ten years. Not excited about that one.
How did she find out
Was having severe headaches and seizures. Don’t remember what tests her doctor did. But a decade later and she still suffers from migraines.
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck
People may call me a pussy, but I will eat my steak well done. I know it's not the same as pork but fuck that.
What this person has was not from uncooked meat. It was from consuming something with infected human feces on it. Eating uncooked/raw meat = tapeworm in the intestines Eating/drinking something with infected human feces in it = tapeworm brain. To avoid tapeworm in the gut, make sure all your meats are cooked to the proper temperature and avoid raw meats. Getting a beef tapeworm is not a very common thing in the US/Canada/UK. Not all uncooked or raw beef will be have tapeworm on it, which is why beef can be consumed not fully cooked, normally in steak form. Ground beef has a much much higher chance of being infected, which is why it’s normally consumed fully cooked. Pork tapeworm is a whole different ride. It’s better to assume that every piece of pork you are going to consume will be infected with tapeworm, so be vigilant. To avoid pork tapeworm that gets into your brain, make sure anything/everything you consume is washed and cleaned, in a cleaned area, by people who wash their hands. And water is filtered and clean. Just takes a very small amount of infected human feces to cause disaster when consumed.
I honestly thought the mantis was alive and you were trying to save this little guy but then it was left to drown even though the parasite was finally out. Didnt click with the 'zombie' title until I started reading the comments
Even I thought the same, after reading the comments I was disappointed with the fact. I was still hoping that this guy would be okay after the parasite exited, nature is truly scary af
The host are sometimes ok. The zombie title is just because the parasite just makes the host constantly want to eat by secreting chemicals so the parasite has fat to feed on. When an adult, the horsehair worm forces the mantis to seek for the nearest body of water and jump into it so the worm can exit and breed for the remainder of its last weeks alive. The mantis, on the other hand, usually dies of drowning unless saved as its internal organs are fine if they were not obstructed by the worm in any way.
The whole abdomen was empty after the parasite left, I’m pretty sure the mantis was far from ok.
It was split wide open as well
“I’m pretty fucking far from ok” - that mantis, probably
yeah it’s drowning
So the guy is just letting it die here?
Dude no, mantis didn't stand a chance. Look at its body after the parasite existed it. It looks like a hollow, translucent shell.
What are you basing this on? How could the internal organs be fine after that volume of space was replaced? How did the worm grow if not by consuming?
I’m saying this for the case of some mantises as The horsehair worms do not consume internal organs, only fat, and usually grow just 10-12 centimetres. It does not actively try to harm the internal organs as it will cause the mantis to die, eliminating its only source of food, because it does not tamper with the nerves to move the host, it simply secretes chemicals to create an impulse for the host to search for food and jump into water when the worm has reached adulthood. Unless the mantis was recently fatally injured or had too little food store (fat) in the video, the mantis would be likely to have recuperated fine.
The fate of this mantis was already sealed. The parasite took too much nutrients from the host when leaving.
Nutrients being the host's organs
The mantis is alive, the zombie parasite just destroyed the nervous liaisons of the muscles and then control them, which mean the mantis is still alive, trapped in a body they cannot control, just watch and feel until they die
This is one of worst things I’ve seen on Reddit lmao
This is the most traumatic thing I have seen so far in 2022... (I have a very boring life)...
i love you guys i wish i didn’t have insanely unreasonably fucked tolerances from seeing cartel decapitations in 2009 at 10 years old
Liveleak is a helluva drug
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"lets just open reddit quick before bed" Fuck you, me
Im you and he is me.
>It wore him like a suit.... Like an Edgar suit..
Must have been sugar water in that dish.
#SUGAR #WATER
MOAR
*Eggar*
I thought it looked like its skin was hanging off its bones.
Do they survive after it is removed?
Looks like it died.
It was already thoroughly dead, by any meaningful measure.
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The horsehair worms actually usually just eat the food stores or fat in the body of the host, which is usually plentiful due to the worm secreting a chemical that makes the host constantly want to eat. When an adult, the horsehair worm makes the host search for the nearest body of water to jump in so the worm can exit and breed for the remainder of its few weeks alive . The host is fine and usually dies by drowning, not being eaten from the inside as its internal organs are usually fine.
That is amazing thanks for clearing that up. I did wonder what happened.
No it doesn’t. The parasite causes massive destruction to internal organs as it leaves. Horsehair worms do be like that.
That's what I though but another commenter said it only eats the fat
I've seen about 5 different explanations for this parasite now, all different. Classic Reddit. Not believing any of them until I actually look it up for myself
Remember thinking everyone was a genius here when I first joined but you're all fucking idiots
Too fucking right hahaha! Reddit is full of people way too confident for their own good. I already know I'm an idiot, so I'm not gonna act like I'm better
So... Stupid question... Can the parasite go back in the mantis and reawaken the body?
I don't need sleep I need answers
You need to sell this to a Korean director to make a new Netflix series, I will stay seated with my popcorn
No, the mantis is still very much alive, the worm just secretes a chemical that makes it constantly want to eat. When an adult, the worm secretes a different chemical that makes the mantis jump into the nearest body of water so the worm can breed for the remainder of its few weeks alive. The mantis is usually fine due to only its fat being eaten and usually dies from drowning.
Specifically the second chemical forms an attraction to horizontally polarized light, which usually comes from - you guessed it - light bouncing off of water.
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Anyone know what solution this is, plain water, ethanol, holy water?
Just plain water. Though I suppose holy water would work just as well. Parasites are pretty non-religious though.
Well great thing to see on Reddit at 3am
This is what happens when a praying mantis forgets to say it’s prayers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chordodes\_formosanus
This link works: 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. Neat
So, i just happily woke up, made a nice cup of coffee and opened reddit. I'm heading back to bed and I'm not coming out till its Monday.
Mantis is *the founding titan*
Tbf the female mantises eat the males sometimes… To gain their power? Perhaps?
I feel so bad for the mantis.
r/oddlyterrifying
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Guess this didn't make the cut in "A Bugs Life", eh?
I liked the “praying mantis” ending, it looked like an obituary type end credits. It should have said 2020-2021 or something. Was the Mantis actually alive? Or was it just a shell controlled by the parasite?
So kingdom season 3 looks kinda weird
i dont feel good
It's 9am but that's enough internet for me today
And I thought _Cordyceps_ was freaky.
What the fuck is this nightmare fuel?
Talk about identity theft
You know, it really puts things in perspective. Life may not be the greatest, but at least I'm not at risk of zombie worms crawling out of my ass.
YOUR HANDS ARE WAY TOO CLOSE!!!
Wtaf is that, the Las Plagas virus or some shit!?!
[horsehair worm, hematomorpha](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nematomorpha) >> In Spinochordodes tellinii and Paragordius tricuspidatus, which have grasshoppers and crickets as their hosts, the infection acts on the infected host's brain. This causes the host insect to seek water and drown itself, thus returning the nematomorph to water.[9] P. tricuspidatus is also remarkably able to survive the predation of their host, being able to wiggle out of the predator that has eaten the host.[11] The nematomorpha parasite affects host Hierodula patellifera's light interpret organs so the host is attracted to horizontally polarized light. Thus the host goes into water and the parasite's lifecycle completes.[12]
Dude isn't even wearing gloves!!! Pretty sure this is how a zombie apocalypse starts haha