This Is What All Mantises Are Afraid of

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[@mlembrant]

i visited the channel and there are two videos only.. and the reason I clicked on it is because there is word "Fek!" in the link ^,^

[@omaerna1400]

That coffee looked watery and awful.

[@willlawson8044]

@@mlembrant and they put a version of that in the lovely “vaccine “ . Thank you VRIL/BLACK SUN SOCIETY

[@lucienjackson4635]

This is scary

[@larryb8022]

I never new this very interesting and scary if it gets into human.

[@abhigyankishor4581]

bro if i was under constant threat of zombie worm, i'd be praying too

[@raven4k998]

soon you will be chemically compelled to think your a female and take care of a parasites young like they are your own🤣

[@isfrenchjei]

I see what you just did there

[@reinakahara5223]

They don’t target humans😂

[@tackers]

🙌🙌🙌

[@LoveU-dq3li]

City of Rott vibes🥲🧟‍♂️

[@MrCrazybananas316]

Favorite part: "you are not you anymore, you are me" 😂😂 the graphics were on point.

[@impossiblemaster5281]

i also like that part!

[@SharikMik]

He hearted u

[@samanthakennedy83]

I loved that part

[@Something800]

I laughed at that part!!😂

[@cup-taan6306]

You forgot:- hehehe 😂

[@EternitysSlave]

The first time I ever saw a praying mantis, a very long worm suddenly wiggled out of its body. The mantis was left as just a hollow shell. It forever haunted me. 😱 Now I know it was a hair worm.

[@belowzero4777]

aw heck no😭 Edit: Guess we’re sharing pray mantis stories lol, so the first time I saw a pray mantis, it was on a log eating like a bee or something, I bent down to take a closer look, it stopped eating to look straight at me for a sec, then kept chewing 😂

[@11O2O2O]

The first time i ever saw a praying mantis, it was 💩ing on some cardboard i picked it up with

[@yunosballs]

@@11O2O2O 😂😂😂

[@TerminatorZXY]

First time I ever saw a praying mantis, it was in the city center near the park and like 4-5 other people surrounded it like it's in a zoo xD

[@illyay1337]

First time I saw a praying mantis was on a walk. Never seen one there before or sense. It was strangely attracted to my foot. I kept moving around and it’d turn around and keep walking towards me. I was somehow creeped out and didn’t want to let it touch me. After playing tag with it like this for a while I kept going on my walk.

[@Starkweather1999]

As a child in the late 80's, I saw a cricket acting erratically in my gravel driveway. It was walking in circles like it was broken. I yelled for my brother to come see and when he got there I used a flat screwdriver to decapitate the cricket. Immediately a black string came out of the body and wrapped around the flat end of the screwdriver. It then began to coil around the metal tip in an effort to drag the rest of it's body from the cricket. We watched it extract it's 5 or 6 inch long body and then start to corkscrew across the gravel. I think my brother screamed and stomped on it. Our father didn't believe us when we told him what happened and for years even after the internet, I carried this strange experience in the back of my mind knowing nothing of a horse hair worm. I also wonder why I killed the cricket in the first place, I didn't make a habit of killing insects so I think maybe it was a mercy thing. Still, I realized that day that all is not what it seems in the world.

[@Flame.Violet]

你被铁线虫吓到了

[@ArtTheKreator]

You’re a serial killer😂😂😂😂😂 Jk

[@TruthArrows]

I've seen these "horse hair worms" coming out of 2 cockroaches before - on a wet, rained on sidewalk at night. It was one of the most bizarre, fascinating and disgusting things I ever witnessed happening. I had NO IDEA what I was seeing and it was in the 90s. I watched it happen with my cousin and it kept coming up as one of the most bizarre wtf moments ever. It took me years to find out what it was by actually contacting an entomologist.

[@JuntosXlaLibertadMileyBuIIrich]

I have run for my life after seeing that lovecraftian roach lol

[@psychonautsupreme189]

I bet you felt like vomiting

[@YUN6_V3NUZ]

something similar happened to me except with a hammerhead worm on the sidewalk on a rainy day at school. had no idea what it was other than a funky looking worm. i felt like the only person that'd ever seen it, and when i asked about it no one had an answer. honestly if anyone can tell me, that would be great. it was brown, about half the length of a pencil and of course, it had a hammer like head. the head itself wasn't very wide. ive got another mystery creature if anyone can help me identify that one too.

[@JLiger]

I did but mostly I kill it anyway 🙃

[@switchblade800x3]

It reminds me of The Thing.

[@davidnguyen467]

Glad that it’s possible that the mantis has the potential to recover from such a violation of its body

[@Saxxonknight]

Man suffers from an equivalent phenomenon, it's called divorce.

[@luke_skywanker7643]

@@Saxxonknight Now, that comment should be pinned at the top!👍👍

[@meria2082]

@@Saxxonknight in this analogy, the man’s partner is a parasite waiting to escape into the water to reproduce

[@rainischalk-late3540]

Lol nice metaphor of getting out of a toxic relationship or major trauma event!

[@venomousgas3300]

Shrimp and other crustaceans can also be afflicted by the' horsehair worm.' Yes... the shrimp and crabs you eat. I had a ghost shrimp in an aquarium that, after about a week or so after bringing it home from Petco, you could actually see the horsehair worm inside, as the ghost shrimp is nearly fully transparent. This is normally fatal for all those afflicted by it. I managed to isolate the shrimp in a 1 gallon bucket of aquarium water, and administer both Pimafix and Melafix, which caused the worm to exit the shrimp. This also is said to almost always be fatal, but somehow my shrimp survived.

[@trip__toworld_after_retire2_y]

I love eating sea foods especially shrimps and craps....and now your comment gave me phobias as I hate worms or parasites. And above all the KZbin algorithm suggested me this video, I clicked it , watched it and now I'm reading the comments. Curiousity kills the cat.

[@spookyskellyskeleton609]

@@trip__toworld_after_retire2_y I'm sure you don't eat them raw

[@trip__toworld_after_retire2_y]

@@spookyskellyskeleton609 of course not . 😂

[@venomousgas3300]

@@LL-LLLL9 The 'horsehair worm' doesn't affect humans at all. I would be more concerned about other illnesses associated with undercooked seafood.

[@enigmatic2878]

It's a ghost shrimp. Of couree it'll be transparent. This is a joke, don't kill me

[@randyrhyne1195]

Mantises make cool pets. They will even interact with you. They like to eat crickets but they really like stink bugs. My girlfriend actually cried when the one I gave her died. I buried it in the yard. The mantis had laid eggs and they hatched, we had transferred them outside while they were still in their eggsac. They are really kinda cute when they’re so tiny.

[@Unhacker]

They're my favorite insect hands down 👍

[@randyrhyne1195]

@@Unhacker Mine too.

[@TopG800]

Pretty nice insects

[@C.Fecteau-AU-MJ13]

Brain parasites is a believable, maybe even plausible, zombie apocalypse scenario.

[@cubensis7706]

Go look on the uncensored platforms and search for parasites in vaccine. They found it in all 4 of them.

[@fancyletter8914]

Have you played The Last of Us?

[@C.Fecteau-AU-MJ13]

@@fancyletter8914 I'm assuming that's a computer game of some sort?... I have not.

[@GB2G]

or just a virus. like the “dear zombie” virus that exists. or mutated rabies

[@kaiman3089]

@@C.Fecteau-AU-MJ13 the game is about a parasite that can take over control humans

[@JunaidRiazAlHassan]

"Just because I am breathing, doesn't mean that I am living" "Just because I am smiling, doesn't mean that I am happy"

[@SteelOnyxYT]

No

[@wavecraftplays8534]

No

[@stegosaure8247]

No

[@Jam-xg3qx]

Deep deep thought damn that hit too close to home

[@LogShaw1587]

"Just because I am praying, doesn't mean I believe"

[@Mangaka-ml6xo]

I had never heard of that mollusk with the ability to just drop off its whole body then regrow it as if nothing happened. Was quite interesting and something to learn!

[@raven4k998]

you take a shower and a worm crawls out of your ass🤣

[@SpeccyMan]

Shame you never learned to spell mollusc.

[@Mangaka-ml6xo]

@@SpeccyMan English isn't my native tongue. Also the auto correct didn't see an issue so I went with it! Have a nice day/night SpeccyMan 👍

[@darkstatehk]

Can't believe I didn't learn this during my degree studies at Zefrank University.

[@tapita6768]

"here we can see the majestic damselfly larva searching for pre- jerry what do you mean this isn't the damselfly episode? right we did one, i do see that. what's the subject of this one then? the thing it's eating? weird place to start, but alright"

[@Dios_of_Autumn-1999]

Your years of studying and mastery is a waste man. Unfortunately, you have to try again but in this school. Also, forget about the actual academic zoology courses. They are just scamming you for your money.

[@junye4963]

Watch more KZbin instead

[@sherylF5610]

@@Dios_of_Autumn-1999 expert opinion?

[@rolandoscar1696]

The Bushmen of South Africa have a children's story of a mantis who was very proud. He felt insignificant, because even the birds could fly higher than him. So to rectify the situation, he announced he would fly higher than the moon, and then all the animals would agree, he was the superior amongst them. All his buddies warned him this would go wrong, but he persisted. As the moon rose, he flew towards it, taking advantage of how low it was in the sky. He flew from tree to tree, but in time, he found the moon was getting higher and higher, and he was getting more exhausted,. In despair he noticed the moon's reflection in a pond. Triumphant, he dove into the pond, thinking he has done it. He had finally reached the moon, and now all the animals will worship him, but not only was he drowning, but the water on his eyes showed him a million moons. He cried for mercy, promising that he would keep his hands in prayer for all eternity, to remember his place.

[@wytehills]

Wow.. You just brought back my childhood days lol.. Thanks

[@liamthen445]

Beautiful story !

[@KevinKingofPrussians]

Story is great but I have a question. He was proud yet he felt insignificant. I don't think anyone who is proud at himself will feel insignificant.

[@PappyNet01]

Thanks for sharing the story. I never heard that fable, but as I was reading it I was thinking that it is the convergence of the Lion King meets Kung Fu Panda.

[@cb90222]

Fantastic story ‼️‼️Ty for sharing that 😇 🙏

[@satadaldutta6898]

The connection between a parasite and the brain somehow reminded me of the line from Inception: "What is the most resilient parasite? An idea that is fully formed, fully understood. It's almost impossible to eradicate it".

[@Dave-sw2dm]

Which is why the government wants to get our children away from their parents as early as they can with daycare, preschool, and public education so they can fully form the liberal ideals in the children.

[@Idk-nd8xk]

Who came here after watching a reel on Instagram?

[@AdrianButcher]

I did lol 😅

[@dubbzz2349]

Wth . Who uses insta these days.

[@raphaels33]

No one.

[@AdrianButcher]

@@dubbzz2349 i do what do you use? TT?

[@Idk-nd8xk]

@@raphaels33 you r no one to us shut up

[@celiatawora1263]

This is very interesting to about these parasites, fascinating how they are transmitted to other animals n so on etc etc…

[@danielreuben1058]

It's funny how some parasites have a better understanding of the brain, and how to manipulate it, than humans do. It's very humbling. For some reason, this video by you, and Steve, struck me as one of the creepiest videos you two have done.

[@bigalsnow8199]

It's funny how viruses can 1. Hide dormant inside your body for years. 2. Trick your immune system into creating more viruses. 3. Avoid and or manipulate our bodies defense system while they reproduce and travel throughout our bodies with impunity. 4. Mutate into a form that resist our artificial vaccines and treatments. They are supposedly non-living agents outside the body but once inside the body...they spring to life...acting with an intelligence of their own.

[@molybdaen11]

Well If you do not understand the immune system, you just fail your bilogy test. If a parasite chose the wrong actions, it dies out.

[@slcRN1971]

Uhmmmmmmm, except for those humans, who are there own kind of parasite. Just look at recent events of individuals .......... who not only con others into only believing there 💩, but also have them begging for more (and sending money and more money to ‘help’ them out😱🤯‼️).

[@fbiagentmiyakohoshino8223]

@@molybdaen11 bilogy

[@KWifler]

No understanding is necessary to carry out natural functions. Just look at human reproduction. Those kids have no idea how a baby is made, but they still make babies.

[@jamesbronz]

7:24 "You are not you anymore......you are now ME.!" That's cold blooded. 😂😂

[@MeanDark2]

parasite to the insect: "look at me, i am the captain now"

[@teedtad2534]

Hair 🐛 worm? Eeeeh NASTY! Praying mantis is a real champion against spiders and other creatures!! WOW, what a story I never knew about from this video!!

[@kenc3686]

Remember two minutes ago when we didn’t know what a hairworm was? Those were the good ole days.

[@Null47375]

Mentis is one of the furious five! He knows kung Fu! He's trained to survive in the wild!

[@BorisNVM]

But he can't stand a worm in the ass

[@zakirostudios9918]

@@BorisNVM 😂

[@gatorraid2117]

@@BorisNVM True XD

[@Rajyadav4149_]

@@BorisNVM 🤣🤣

[@Null47375]

@@BorisNVM Yes! No one can stand that level of technique. It's like beyond human understandings!

[@Maninawig]

This episode made me appreciate Venom so much more.

[@OmarApps1]

He's gent compared to these parasites

[@FiragaJJC]

Actually Venom is more symbiotic than parasitic

[@OmarApps1]

@@FiragaJJC pardon me for misgendering him.

[@ThatNofbody]

@@OmarApps1 lol symbiotic just means they both benefit from the parasite being inside of him

[@FiragaJJC]

@@OmarApps1 Parasitic is when one benefits and the other doesn't. Symbiotic means both benefits... with Venom it needs its host and helps it's host... like some bacteria in our intestines that helps with digestion... both the bacteria and us benefits from it. While the parasite worm feeds off the host and hurts the host by preventing it's growth

[@thedahkterizzin8831]

Thanks for once again showing us how nature is at the same time creepy as f- and simply amazing.

[@abhaymaitra7032]

at 0:20 I thought a mosquito is flying past my ear. I paused the video to look where it was, after couple of seconds realising it was the sound in the video itself. Totally Amazing. haha

[@thebigg8454]

The bug booty warrior. Hair worm: getting some booty is more important than food, more important than drinking water.

[@yourhandsomestep-dad2669]

OG Fleece Johnson

[@goofydrooplsd1344]

😂

[@yaldabaeoth2939]

I likes ya and I wants ya now we can do this easy way or the hard way the choice yours

[@macandrews9548]

@@yaldabaeoth2939 I calls ya Chris Handsome

[@lariaheddington8283]

🤣

[@Meinstein]

Phew! Thank you. It has been over 60 years.. since I was a kid examining bugs in the back yard.. that I captured a cricket that for some reason.. spewed out a thread worm like that right in front of my eyes. I never knew what that was and was beginning to believe that I was having a false memory of the event. Greatly appreciate this video.

[@anti-ethniccleansing465]

Did you put the cricket in water or something?

[@Meinstein]

@@anti-ethniccleansing465 no.. but it was in damp grass and I had handled it. I thought maybe I had squeezed it too hard although I was pretty sure I had not.

[@bernardlolo9482]

Luckily I'm Still 30 years Old when I watched this video. And found out this fact.

[@BlackSeranna]

As a kid, I noticed my cats loved to earth grasshoppers, so I would catch them and give them to the cats. But when I tried to give the cats crickets, they never would eat one. As a kid I thought the creatures were similar. It wasn’t until later when I saw a horsehair worm exiting a cricket, and I immediately knew it was some sort of parasite (as I had seen disgusting tapeworms as well). It was then that I knew why cats wouldn’t eat crickets. I figured that maybe crickets were bad, and cats may not like how they were because crickets could cause death. I knew it had to have been a survival instinct of some sort.

[@Jonesybabie]

@@BlackSeranna🤨 🐈 cats are known carriers of parasites and will eat rats infested with them 🐀 🪱

[@TheGoodContent37]

I could have lived my entire life without EVER knowing about this. EVER!!!

[@abitmintier]

I saw a mole cricket moving weird. I leaned down and watched (in horror) as two writhing tentacles reached out of its lower orifice. And they just kept coming out… I had the sudden thought I was about to become host to some alien creature. Not a great feeling. So I stood up and watched from further away. Two worms emerged, each about 6 inches long and 1/32 inch thick. That thing couldn’t have had any room for organs. For quiet some time. To say crickets are tough doesn’t really hit the mark. Those worms HAD to be completely controlling that insect for a long time. I thought if the host were human and they kept the proportions, those things would have been 20 feet long and 4 inches thick. I’m VERY glad they are just an insect issue.

[@williamcozart8158]

One day my (now ex)girlfriend and I were walking around her parents' garden and she freaked out all of a sudden at a hair worm squirming it's way out of a big cricket in a flooded spot, it was amazing how much of the cricket was actually hairworm that unravelled itself in a disturbing manner..

[@TruthArrows]

It's Very "freaky outy" to watch. Especially when you have no idea what it is.... 🤯

[@williamcozart8158]

@@TruthArrows Like a xenomorph.

[@lisaellis2593]

Icke.

[@dnxx503]

@@williamcozart8158 Im more suprised on how your friends woth your ex bc most of the time they never do

[@williamcozart8158]

@@dnxx503 the story was from when we were together..

[@excitingmeat2159]

Ah. The noble horsehair worm. Another reason I'm glad I have a complex immune system that protects against things like this.

[@metholuscaedes6794]

yea, this kind of thing is what your immune system freaks out about when it have alergies. it is simply so neurotic as it knows what exist out there.

[@darkfeffy]

Lmao. Go to Africa, you will learn otherwise. It's not your immune system protecting you. It's your civilization/hygiene

[@excitingmeat2159]

Complex**

[@samjohnson497]

Not really considering we can get toxoplasmosis, ring worm, and many other parasites. Yes some effect us, but you can literally die from tape and other worms. We are cleaner and smarter, but can catch most diseases in fact we created many and made some worse

[@excitingmeat2159]

@@samjohnson497 what I mean to say is we don't get our entire body cavity taken over chest burster style

[@DowntimeDohgyGaming]

love how i come here for mantises and i get a rant, but a really good one

[@samjohnson3347]

I don’t know why I’m drawn to such videos like that mantis is drawn to the water when in control of the parasite.

[@myrecovery4787]

The coffee he makes at the beginning of every video always look so damn good

[@PrztDre]

Because it’s the same one

[@Stellar-Dawn]

And so it will forever look good.

[@FatLadyKiller]

I can't stand the slurping..gross

[@camojoe83]

Stock footage. Purchased personality.

[@xtcchewy2483]

@@FatLadyKiller sus boy

[@hanfucolorful9656]

Some 50 years ago, I noticed that mantis had black hairworm in Sichuan, China, I always think that I am the only one on Earth that know this "strange thing" until I watched this video. This video brings back my child's memory, playing around by myself in the forest, curious about mantis, butterflies, ants, dragonflies, earthworms, etc. Thank you very much for this video!

[@raven4k998]

soon you will be chemically compelled to think your a female and take care of a parasites young like they are your own🤣

[@jaczylijaaleniepowiemkto3243]

Snail: (becomes infected) Also the snail: "Ight, imma *head* out."

[@phillipayoung10]

Invasion of the Body Snatchers at a WHOLE NEW level!!

[@leoncoard2676]

I think I spend too much time on KZbin but thanks for researching another subject. YOU are the BEST. I'm gonna like this one. I bet. LOL

[@BanaDoyabad]

I bet I spend more time on youtube than u do, so ur good lol.

[@crystalcat551]

But do you guys subscribe? Wow

[@marem3038]

You can learn many important stuffs from KZbin.Jst make sure that 80%of the vide you watch are educational.

[@Gloriaglatt]

I know exactly what you mean

[@aneishamiller2221]

@@BanaDoyabad nminnnn0

[@Charlie_probably...]

I remember I was at the park once and I found a completely still praying mantis on a sitting on a bench. After a while of it just sitting there I poked it with a stick and a super long and thin white worm came out of the back and the still mantis just fell over. Scary.

[@anti-ethniccleansing465]

I’m surprised the worm came out when the mantis wasn’t even in water.

[@Charlie_probably...]

@@anti-ethniccleansing465 it probably was a different kind of worm. I didn't live near any bodies of water

[@KoongYe]

Sees a unusally healthy midget. Me: yup he is infected.

[@stefanherns4541]

As a Grandma, I wish I had had you as my Science Teacher., The way you explained what the long worm does to the Praying Mantis, I would have paid more attention in class & not play hooky so much! I'm sharing this my grandkids. Thanks for posting!!

[@raven4k998]

soon you will be chemically compelled to think your a female and take care of a parasites young like they are your own🤣

[@nithraliabrawlstars6541]

Grandma Stefan creative Name💀💀💀💀😏

[@RIFLQ]

Imagine an invisible parasite controls our brain and makes us love the wrong person

[@Tscornynow]

Fr LMAO

[@Rottidog68]

It's called alcohol

[@Null47375]

Definitely drugs....

[@roozbeh6999]

That's called Media controlled by certain people

[@PhoenixAce]

No Luke we call that bad choices your friends told you about her You didn’t listen

[@fancyletter8914]

Now you have got me all concerned that if i ever have to use mantises or cockroaches for food or bait in an apocyptic world that I am going to have a living worm inside me.

[@helmutschmacher2100]

Thats not far off now, stay tuned to billiboi G....

[@jjk2one]

China has cockroach ranches and they them in the food to export.

[@R.P.Pyotrsovich]

4:37 HAIRWORM, YOU SHALL NOT PASS!!!

[@ayr1190]

It’s 3 in the morning and I’m now watching videos about Mantis parasites. I think this video’s a good stopping point for me.

[@beantee]

Me: *watches video of suffering mantis Also me: * remembers guardians of Galaxy characters

[@pancakehero2748]

I have so many mantis encounters in my garden at my house because they eat bugs in my garden try to count how much bugs they eat daily.

[@aaaht3810]

It always amazes me how scientists do the research to discover what the life cycle of various animals are.

[@raven4k998]

imagine being able the shed your body if you had parasites🤣🤣🤣

[@alexojideagu]

I admire its purity. A perfect organism. I can't lie to you about your chances. You have my sympathies.

[@coolpoolbymatthew]

I feel bad for the poor bugs who are victims of these persists.

[@natanplayz1236]

Meh they do it for the survival of the species. Like humans are parasites too for the earth

[@reefcheese5493]

*parasites

[@seas0nal_sky]

@@reefcheese5493 It was likely their autocorrect. Persists is an actual word spelled quite differently.

[@reefcheese5493]

@@seas0nal_sky ye ye I know

[@dannichols6261]

@@seas0nal_sky Not just spelled differently, but pronounced quite differently too.

[@freddrog4689]

" although the mantis' dont like it very much '. I appreciate your consideration for the Mantis' well being

[@PumpkinSpicePretzels]

I've seen so many horror movies that it would make people question for years their own existence, and this is one of the most horrific things I've ever seen.

[@coreythompsonTheOneandOnly]

"You are not you anymore, now you are me" . When I heard that i paused the video 📹 and went to the comment section, and the very first comment I saw 👀 said that the you are not me was their favorite part of the video, I loved it too, you folks should print that on t shirts and start selling it

[@nilebrixton8436]

Saw the hair worm in action when I was young before the internet and widespread of high quality cellphone camera. I was both fascinated and scared. No one include my teachers knew what I saw. Had vivid nightmare of it coming out of my body which I still remember to this day.

[@gen_edits]

Damn the mollusks are the definition of Improvise, adapt, overcome😂

[@moehead8257]

THIS IS CRAAAAAAZY MAN, I miss my life 15 mins ago when I didn't know these types of parasites existed.

[@OKTHUNDERROCK]

The "birds eye view" locust may be another type of insect that host parasites. They are green with yellow striping running from head to end of abdomen and yellow antenae. I have encountered 3 and two were agressive and very robust and difficult to subdue or put down. The they are extremely fast, agile and manuver unlike most grasshoppers which flutter as they leap to increase traveling distance and crude directional navigational ability. These are more mechanically efficient in their flight. They extend one leg and launch themselves into flight which apears more of a smooth gyro style controlled movement that can move any direction or change direction without losing too much momentum or velocity. The first of these jumped off someones pant legs when they entered a room. A short time later it had made its way about 18 inches from where I was reading as I noticed it, it leaped at me and I grabbed a broom stick and went after it. Thinking I must have got it we searched everywhere but could not locate it. It had made its way to the opposite corner and was in a waste basket that was on its side. By the time I realized where it was and grabbed the broom handle it had leaped 3ft to the edge of the bed and was coming at me for another round. Again the broom stick after half dozen tries finally landed a solid hit and knocked off a rear leg. It was then swept up into a jar that had a green river rock in it. The jar was capped and vigorously shaken to kill the insect. Within a couple hours it turned black and 5 or so half inch worms apeared eating their way out of the abdomen and made short work and a mess of it. Later the worms had formed little pods about 1/8 in. I sealed the jar with candle wax and got rid of it. The 2nd time the insect was about to take flight off the wall and I had hornet spray ready it leaped and I missed the first time and didnt even see where it went due to heading right at my face. I darted to the side and it went past. As I looked for it ,It jumped up from behind me to shoulder height 4 ft to my front. I blasted it point blank with hornet spray still leaping at me but with not as much speed or control. I hit it again with two more foamings. Not killing it but incapacitating it I stomped it. I took pics of each time I encountered these insects. A thousand would be a nightmare for any domestic animal or person for that matter. True story.

[@raven4k998]

your not you anymore now you are me so go forth my child and eat A&W and send your money to Raven4k cause you love me so much

[@ElvisChibundu]

We eat cricket & Grasshoppers in my country... that worm is what we watch out for in their stomach

[@zohaibtariq7351]

🤢🤢🤢🤢

[@dking4604]

What country and how do they prepare it?

[@tmo9701]

Ew

[@tmo9701]

Eww

[@Mayhzon]

So it can affect humans?

[@scrappydoo7887]

The crab parasite could explain a few things

[@zenkalt]

I had the same thought. It sounds plausible.

[@isobaramark7032]

😂😂 Dont shout it

[@scrappydoo7887]

@@isobaramark7032 😂

[@joepeglegmorgan3015]

Mantis and garasshopers give me chills

[@StaticDaSticc]

“The honey badger and the mantis are the most fearless things.” My asian giant hornets and my argentine ant colony sitting in the corner:

[@Zonose]

As a Mantis, I can confirm, I'm terrified of Wurmples.

[@leftovercrass5210]

"the most fearless creatures in the world" A miniature fox terrier has entered the debate

[@markbeames7852]

somewhere, some company is researching a way to have the human body mimic this genetic trait in praying mantis'.

[@BeefBossFromWiiSports069]

My brother saw a praying mantis in his window in Upstate NY weirdly😅

[@molybdaen11]

I would have never guessed that the parasitic Goa'ulds from Stargate had a grain of truth in they healing abilitys.

[@Tthemoney15]

Dammit! Knew someone would beat me to this comment.

[@paromimmy3190]

Keep making videos about mantises! They are my favorites!

[@furyzxzx]

Humans: "Nature is so beautiful" Praying Mantis: "we live in a society.."

[@ovni2295]

Toxoplasmosis also affects humans, where it causes depression and makes humans crave affection more. Affection they receive from... housecats. Up to half of all cat owners are infected.

[@theworthysoul]

I'm glad he pointed out they aren't evil. Too many people think parasites are evil. They're not. They just had to adapt different ways to survive to... well... survive. It's not that different from predation, except they keep the host alive rather than killing it instantly in order to keep themselves safe.

[@Epsilon-18]

Yes, technically they just got the classification. Humans could be considered parasites to the planet, but of course we are not evil... Most of us, at least.

[@juliahello6673]

Nothing is evil, even humans. Just living out our lives that we didn’t choose, with instincts that we didn’t choose. One of those instincts is to judge other humans and call them evil.

[@sawhotz5341]

Was just planning to re-watch Kung Fu Panda and I know I'll not react to the Mantis the way I used to.

[@cdmorrissy3692]

I found several adult Mantis' outside my building and caught a few; they were pretty friendly and ate raw hamburger right from my finger. So, I then threw them to the ground and stomped their guts out. OK, I didn't do that, I kept them for a few days and let them go.

[@ninjavibez4696]

I (explicit) LOVE entomology! Gives me the wiggs but I love anything that scares me 😂

[@yeehawtrades6499]

Seen a few of these at a pond I like to fish at. Which makes sense considering we get plagued by mormon crickets every year.

[@slcRN1971]

😱‼️

[@lovelynsmith3778]

Thanks for the lesson. This so amazing. I like that part,"you are not you anymore " and start laughing

[@Missyd607]

Informative & entertaining ma man good job!

[@saralynn518]

I really hate that I go in creeks and also kayak. The water is so full of...I want to upchuck right now.

[@nimi539]

Its incredible how anything parasitic has such a strong will to live.

[@botulismcasserole9832]

I wish these would pour out of my asshole at stores

[@botulismcasserole9832]

I would be so turned on.

[@demonslayereren3970]

allegedly theyre ancient bioweapons escaped from laboratory(s)

[@merlindadandayo797]

So many Scientific words that I cannot memorized all of it...OMG! The Narration of this video is like music in my ears...Thanks WATOP...so perfectly pronounced with emphasis on every words..Highly recommended for educational purposes...I super loved ur vids...Thanks Steve....

[@williams.vincent4235]

Lol! You guys are wild! A terrific educational piece with some terrific humour - I love it. ❤

[@raven4k998]

imagine being convinced that your a female and that you should act like a female just like that crab parasite does to it's host what on earth would the doctor think when he realized the parasite made you act that way🤣🤣🤣

[@zannbee108]

Fascinating and horrifying at the same time.

[@itoast1231]

The worm looks like venom when it's attacking

[@Roronoazoro2359]

When you call venom a worm

[@Ryxll]

10:20 "YOU'RE NOT A GIRL STEVE! YOU'RE JUST CONFUSED!!!"

[@BennyXV]

"This man is holding a common mantis" Damn that's bar tho

[@Megalith79]

The parasites: _”Yes he is Mi, and I’m Yu.”_ The host: “Man I am about to whoop yo weird ass cuz I am sick of playing games!”

[@gusneljoseph9241]

Your ability to switch up the topic is top notch I swea!!

[@wamrainc176]

We know how Steve looks like, we need to see the narrator please lol

[@mossydv]

Seth Rogan

[@NASCAR_Junk]

This really sounds like a symbiotic parasitic relationship. The parasite makes sure the host doesn’t die while utilizing its body for nutrients.

[@thebluefastforward]

4:37 😂😂😂😂😂😂 EPIC LOL😂

[@catherinehopkins2264]

Brilliant video- educational, entertaining and very funny. And those mantis played their roles very well.

[@Brocuzgodlocdunfamdogson]

The fact that they share their immune systems with their host makes me wonder if there could be any potential beneficial uses for the worms.

[@davidbacchetta]

My physiology and biotechnology professor in college mentioned taking some stomach parasite eggs as an immune system booster. They were modified not to mature and apparently their presence would put the immune system on high alert.

[@user-vx8ez9ws8h]

Im crying seeing the mantis suffering from hairworm and ligma diseases at the same time😭😭

[@xXxDiamondTigerxXx]

Pray mantis ain’t strong until it’s 6’2 saying 250 lbs

[@Jeepee474]

Actually the hair worm more commonly preys on cricketS 🦗 because there are lots of crickets more than mantises

[@TruthArrows]

I've seen these "horse hair worms" coming out of 2 cockroaches before - on a wet, rained on sidewalk at night. It was the most bizarre, fascinating and disgusting thing I ever witnessed happening. I had NO IDEA what I was seeing and it was in the 90s. I watched it happen with my cousin and it kept coming up as one of the most bizarre wtf moments ever. It took me years to find out what it was by actually contacting an entimologist.

[@teddykazandjiev]

That Lord of the Rings reference killed me. Very original.

[@joyporcella81]

I scratched my head and freaked out with heebeegeebees some by your video and I loved it!😊

[@frostedfelony]

As an incoming student majoring in Neuroscience, I am inspired to now research about this topic

[@Unhacker]

See also "Host Manipulation By Parasites" (Dawkins, 2012), it goes deep on the neurochemistry of the trick.

[@scronx]

Thanks for this fascinating, horrifying study. You may have just answered a question long dogging my mind -- swimming in a lake where it's bordered by woods, there were scads of grasshoppers 10 15 20 ft from shore on the surface of the water. Was it a hairworm festival?

[@cpa2788]

I can't think of another reason why that should happen. I think you're correct.

[@thewitness7061]

I would say this channel is more informative than my biology teacher in high school and biology lectures in college combined. This video in particular was mind blowing.

[@SwineBuster]

This video has the most complete explanation. Proud of it.