These Parasites Produce a Gruesome Spectacle | Deep Look #shorts

A baby hairworm hitches a ride inside a cricket, feasting on its fat until the coiled-up parasite is ready to burst out. Then it hijacks the cricket's mind and compels it to head to water for a gruesome little swim.

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[demosthenes]

"they dont target humans" thats seems like something a worm controlled human would say...

[yikes]

"Would you still love me if I turned into a worm?"
".. what kind of worm?"

[NewMessage]

I wonder how many of us were unintentionally perfectly synched with those sounds of disgust...

[painfall]

"but don't worry, they don't target humans"

Hairworm: *"yet"*

[nookleer]

I will never understand how bugs can have parasites that are 75% of their body weight and still be alive.

[demolitionkid]

Now we gotta drain the pool, back fill it and build a new one.

[holeesheet]

"they dont target humans" Yeah, I didn't know we had a treaty with them.

[tesselationstation]

How does something that big come out of a tiny cricket?

[xeflatio]

Worm controlled human: 'Don't worry we don't target humans'

[skelitalmisfit]

I was waiting for the "Yet" after she said they dont target humans.

[pitotphilo]

There's a horror movie named Yeon'gasi(연가시, literally just hairworm in Korean)...
In that movie, a varie of hairworm start to target human and lots of things happens. That was freakin scary for me when I was young...

[jenniferlonnes]

I've seen horsehair worms coming out of grasshoppers when exposed to water. It's amazing how much of them can fit into an already small creature.

[AndrewDeLong]

No, it's fine. I didn't want to sleep tonight anyway.

[slowpracticebuddy]

I never felt such a strong urge to send a worm to the sun with a slipper

[zaneoosthuizen]

"They dont target humans"
"Not yet"

[GamiTheGolden]

imagine being in the pool, then a cricket falls next to you and starts doing this

[DavidK-rw]

The night i found one of these crawling out of a cricket in my basement, i began to believe in aliens!

[JSmithIX]

You forgot to add “YET” in the end 😂😂😂

[alison]

And yall wanna start eating insects 😂😂😂

[verycoolname]

‘But don’t worry: they don’t target humans.’

That doesn’t stop the nightmares, lady.