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[apana]

I lost it when the caterpillar starved to death protecting the parasites

Yeah I really felt bad at that one, mind control is just wrong. Here is a happy video about bees killing a hornet:

 

[kai3345]

Oh my god I almost puked at that video where they pull the larvae out of the guy's body

 

[FOOTE]

Nature ftw

 

[kai3345]

Idk why I always enter these spider/bug threads. They always give me the heeby-jeebies

 

[Satyamdas]

At first I was going to say I couldn't believe the video in the OP actually made me feel bad for a fucking cockroach, but then I watched some of the other vids in the thread. Now I just want to build myself a sterile fortress like the old guy from Creepshow:

 

[Takao]

The poor caterpillar. Dude got fat, and then had chunks of his body eaten to give birth to nasty larvae that brainwashed him into protecting them even more, and giving his life for them.

 

[Infamous Chris]

God damnit fuck you GAF :'(

 

[mingus]

Thank god insects are small. Human-sized wasps would be fucking terrifying.

SUP

 

[Kinyou]

The poor caterpillar. Dude got fat, and then had chunks of his body eaten to give birth to nasty larvae that brainwashed him into protecting them even more, and giving his life for them.

I'm amazed that the caterpillar survived with so many holes in it.

 

[LFG]

i've always wanted to find someone with like a cluster of 12-15 bot fly larvae in their back and remove them with tweezers.

 

[CrazyDude]

I am so glad I was born a human.

 

[inky]

Leucochloridium variae, common name brown-banded broodsac, is a species of a parasite that invades snails and makes their eye stalks swollen, pulsating and colourful.

This maggot-resembling feature attracts birds. The bird rips off the eye stalk and eats it and later on the parasite's egg is dropped with the bird's feces. Similar life-histories are found in most species in the genus Leucochloridium including Leucochloridium paradoxum.

The snail regenerates a replacement eye stalk, which also becomes infected by the parasite.

 

[DonMigs85]

No, this is more horrifying
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7_F_AqeRqo

 

[MikeMyers]

The poor caterpillar. Dude got fat, and then had chunks of his body eaten to give birth to nasty larvae that brainwashed him into protecting them even more, and giving his life for them.

If it were a Weedle, all the parasites would have gotten poisoned inside his body.

 

[balddemon]

No, this is more horrifying
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7_F_AqeRqo

bahahahahahaha wtf is that?! that's hugeeeee

 

[speculawyer]

Thank god insects are small. Human-sized wasps would be fucking terrifying.

We have other things that get our brains . . . Mad-cow, syphilis, alzheimers, etc.

 

[franknbeans]

damn nature you scary

 

[Kalnos]

bot fly

 

[CrazyDude]

We have other things that get our brains . . . Mad-cow, syphilis, alzheimers, etc.

Those are all better then being eaten from the inside out by some bugs baby.

 

[crazy monkey]

I read incest lol

 

[CrazyDude]

I read incest lol

This is how we can tell who watches the most porn.

 

[apana]

We have other things that get our brains . . . Mad-cow, syphilis, alzheimers, etc.

I thought parasitic worms are the leading cause of brain seizures? At least that's what that Caltech article that was posted said. Don't eat undercooked pork or pork in foreign countries, you gonna have things hatching in your brain.

 

[Sgt.Pepper]

I feel the urge to start a deep sea creatures thread.

 

[Gattsu25]

Parasites are terrifying: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiHtUFuGgSA

 

[Kalnos]

Parasites are terrifying: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiHtUFuGgSA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23eimVLAQ2c

 

[Panzon]

KILL EM ALL!!

 

[Gattsu25]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23eimVLAQ2c

Woa. Thanks for that!

Now I'm itching all over.

 

[Vulcano's assistant]

No, this is more horrifying
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7_F_AqeRqo

It that was in the tropics I would be more careful because that almost looks like a Rhodnius Prolixus, the main carrier of the Chagas Disease.

 

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[Finaika]

OMG. What insect is that?

 

[Sgt.Pepper]

OMG. What insect is that?

Videogame.

 

[duk]

what about pubic crabs gross!

 

[SystemShock2]

Those wasps are brutal.

 

[Bowflex]

The roach is scarier

 

[abuC]

Toxoplasma gondii

Parasite that causes rats to seek out cat urine, since its primary hosts are cata.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/04/070403-cats-rats.html

 

[Mr.Squirrel]

Threads like these make me glad knowing that one day this planet will blow up and all these demonic creatures will be forever wiped off the face of the universe.

 

[Mr.Squirrel]

Human sized anything (not already that size or larger) would be fucking terrifying.

e.g. Squirrels...human sized ones, they would be evil man. pure evil. The ones behind my apartment building already run up to you as soon as you walk out the door and jump on your leg hoping for food.

Human sized squirrels would probably be the scariest thing after human sized insects.

 

[LOCK]

Nature is awesome.

lol at that "brother" being scared of a harmless bug....lol

 

[BannedEpisode]

There is a fairly common nematode in the Midwest called the horsehair worm. Basically it grows inside of crickets and other small insects until it occupies nearly 80% of it's body and then releases a hormone that makes the cricket move to a body of water. After it jumps in the worm bursts free from the cricket.

 

[raiot]

Toxoplasma gondii

Parasite that causes rats to seek out cat urine, since its primary hosts are cata.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/04/070403-cats-rats.html

It's been speculated by scientists that this parasite also effects the behavor of humans!
I don't want to go into detail, just read the wikipedia about it and be seriously creeped out!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasmosis

 

[Regulus Tera]

Yeah I really felt bad at that one, mind control is just wrong. Here is a happy video about bees killing a hornet:

Tenchu.

 

[Ferga]

Videogame.

pretty sure an insect in the world acts like that

oh god worms in your face in related videos...

so curious.....

 

[Devolution]

How did I know it was going to be the wasp that turns insects into drones while its kin pulls an alien.

 

[Sleeplessnights]

I don't know if I want to keep reading this thread.

 

[Tenck]

Thank god insects are small. Human-sized wasps would be fucking terrifying.

They're waiting in the shadows till they have an army big enough to take over the world.

 

[Devolution]

Also surprised no one posted this yet hehe.

 

[Lesath]

They're waiting in the shadows till they have an army big enough to take over the world.

The only thing keeping you safe is the relatively low oxygen concentration in the Earth's atmosphere nowadays. There used to be dragonflies with 2 ft wingspans.

 

[Finaika]

There used to be dragonflies with 2 ft wingspans.

So they used to be dragons?

 

[Ushojax]

I love how the cockroach shat itself when it got stung.

 

[BobFromPikeCreek]

Yeah I really felt bad at that one, mind control is just wrong. Here is a happy video about bees killing a hornet:

That was incredible.