This Is What All Mantises Are Afraid of
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Male mantises are at risk of decapitation by females after mating, while hair worms manipulate the brains of mantises to lead them to water, impacting their growth and behavior. Various parasites, like cordyceps fungus and lancet liver fluke, control host behavior by altering brain chemistry to ensure their reproduction and survival.
Insights
- Hair worms manipulate a mantis' brain chemicals to make it mindlessly wander towards water, ensuring the worm's survival and reproduction.
- Parasites such as cordyceps fungus and lancet liver fluke manipulate host behavior through complex brain chemistry, affecting neural mechanisms to ensure their reproduction.
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Recent questions
How do hair worms manipulate mantises?
By affecting the mantis' brain chemicals.
What happens to infected mantises physically?
They stop growing and lose their chirp.
How do infected mantises eventually recover?
They return to normal after the worm leaves.
What is the purpose of a marine gastropod shedding its body?
To get rid of parasites and regenerate a new body.
How do parasites like cordyceps fungus manipulate host behavior?
Through complex brain chemistry affecting neural mechanisms.
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Summary
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Parasites Manipulate Hosts for Survival and Reproduction
- The female mantis bites off the male's head after mating, and another dangerous situation involves a hair worm taking over a mantis' mind and body.
- Hair worms start as eggs in water, develop into larvae, and are eaten by aquatic insects to reach a host's body, where they mature and manipulate the host to reach water.
- The hair worm affects the mantis' brain chemicals to make it wander mindlessly towards water, ensuring the worm's survival and reproduction.
- Infected mantises stop growing, lose their chirp, and have altered physical appearances due to the hair worm's presence.
- Despite the hair worm's size, infected mantises can survive and return to normal after the worm leaves their body.
- A marine gastropod mollusk, Alicia margarita, sheds its body to get rid of parasites, regenerating a new body from the head.
- Parasites like cordyceps fungus and lancet liver fluke manipulate host behavior through complex brain chemistry, affecting neural mechanisms to ensure their reproduction.
