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| Parasites brainwash grasshoppers into death dive | |
| 2005-09-08 | |
EFL: A parasitic worm that makes the grasshopper it invades jump into water and commit suicide does so by chemically influencing its brain, a study of the insects’ proteins reveal. The parasitic Nematomorph hairworm (Spinochordodes tellinii) develops inside land-dwelling grasshoppers and crickets until the time comes for the worm to transform into an aquatic adult. Somehow mature hairworms brainwash their hosts into behaving in way they never usually would – causing them to seek out and plunge into water. Once in the water the mature hairworms – which are three to four times longer that their hosts when extended – emerge and swim away to find a mate, leaving their host dead or dying in the water.
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| Posted by:anonymous5089 |
| #7 Ima remember the New TriLo Episode where our hero undergoes 58 hours of physical hellpain from EarWicks. Survived, happy. Only to lern it was a formerly pregnant worm. Only so so. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2005-09-08 15:33 |
| #6 Too late, Kevin. Khan, about to put Ceti Eels in Terrell and Chekov's ears] Khan: You see, their young enter through the ears and wrap themselves around the cerebral cortex. This has the effect of rendering the victim extremely susceptible to suggestion. Later as they grow follows madness and death. |
| Posted by: Steve 2005-09-08 11:44 |
| #5 It's the plot of my next blockbuster movie N guard. I call it Aliens VS Water World. |
| Posted by: Kevin Costner 2005-09-08 11:03 |
| #4 Just vaguely, .com? |
| Posted by: Raj 2005-09-08 10:54 |
| #3 can we give this to some of the DEAN CROWD????? |
| Posted by: ARMYGUY 2005-09-08 10:31 |
| #2 This vaguely reminds me of my ex-wife thingy. |
| Posted by: .com 2005-09-08 10:23 |
| #1 I wonder if we are going to see this in a Sci-Fi flick soon. Imagine if there was a human version? After all, the Geiger Alien (Alien, Alens, etc.) was modeled on the Iclumineon(sp?) wasp. Of course, one could make the argument that Islamism is one such instance.... |
| Posted by: N guard 2005-09-08 10:20 |