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<blockquote data-quote="Salmonsaladsandwich" data-source="post: 284286" data-attributes="member: 8523"><p>It's a horsehair worm. They adult worms live in fresh water, but in order to spread to new areas their larvae are parasitic in the guts of insects. After being ingested, the larva grows to adult size inside its host and then messes with its brain and compels it to seek a source of fresh water and leap into it, allowing the larva to escape. I'm not sure if the host survives if it manages to avoid drowning or if the worm has caused too much damage.</p><p></p><p>Something interesting about horsehair worms is that even though they resemble some kind of large nematode, they have their own phylum. (Which is called Nematomorpha because they look so much like nematodes.)</p><p></p><p>Sometimes if you dig through the mud at the bottom of a stream you can find they adult worms, which are really big. Once I came across a small brook that was drying up, leaving a bunch of isolated pools that were turning stagnant. In one pool there were probably dozens of adult worms that had died and were projecting from their burrows.</p><p></p><p>I wonder if the praying mantis ate they larva by itself or ate a recently infected insect?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Salmonsaladsandwich, post: 284286, member: 8523"] It's a horsehair worm. They adult worms live in fresh water, but in order to spread to new areas their larvae are parasitic in the guts of insects. After being ingested, the larva grows to adult size inside its host and then messes with its brain and compels it to seek a source of fresh water and leap into it, allowing the larva to escape. I'm not sure if the host survives if it manages to avoid drowning or if the worm has caused too much damage. Something interesting about horsehair worms is that even though they resemble some kind of large nematode, they have their own phylum. (Which is called Nematomorpha because they look so much like nematodes.) Sometimes if you dig through the mud at the bottom of a stream you can find they adult worms, which are really big. Once I came across a small brook that was drying up, leaving a bunch of isolated pools that were turning stagnant. In one pool there were probably dozens of adult worms that had died and were projecting from their burrows. I wonder if the praying mantis ate they larva by itself or ate a recently infected insect? [/QUOTE]
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