horsehair worm

Have you ever seen a man pouring water on a praying mantis and thought he was trying to kill it? Well, he was actually saving its life. You see, sometimes a mantis becomes host to one of the most disturbing parasites in nature — the horsehair worm. It lives inside the mantis, feeding on its nutrients and growing longer every day, waiting for the moment it can escape. When the mantis touches water, the worm can’t stand it, and that’s when it bursts out — a long, black thread wriggling straight from the mantis’s body. The man wasn’t being cruel; he was helping the parasite come out. Sadly, even after it’s free, the mantis rarely survives. The damage inside is already done.
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