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Squirmy Horsehair Worms: A Zombie-creating Parasite

Squirmy Horsehair Worms: A Zombie-creating Parasite

Paperback

Series: Strange Little Creatures, Book 3

Animals

ISBN10: 197636499X
ISBN13: 9781976364990
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Sep 12 2017
Pages: 32
Weight: 0.16
Height: 0.08 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The horsehair worm is swallowed in larval form by an insect host. As the worm grows and matures inside the insect, the insect host seems to surrender its will to the horsehair worm. Three months after the horsehair worm parasitizes the insect, this host--almost zombie-like-- is compelled to seek out water. When the insect enters the water, the mature worm emerges from the host's body wall---as a writhing, knotting, mass of hair-like worm.

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