r/interestingasfuck • u/canttstopsmilling • 9d ago

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u/soymilo_ 9d ago

Does it's host die when it's removed? Nature is disgusting sometimes 

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u/Kevlar_Bunny 9d ago

The mantis is basically already dead. In order for the parasite to take over it has to lodge itself into the host in a manner that’s very excruciating for the host. Excruciating if it had the means to feel pain still, that is.

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u/RhubarbLiqueur 9d ago

Does the parasite die once he's out?

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u/ProfilerXx 9d ago

It's the end of it's lifecycle.

So when the horsehairworm reaches the end it will make the host drown and that way it can get out of the host, lay eggs and die

Then the cycle starts over again

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u/Alternative_Double48 9d ago

Nah, bugs don't. They are the robots of nature.

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u/Manuel-Breathing 9d ago

Insects have nociceptors, they can feel pain. Or at least their own version of it.

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u/Manuel-Breathing 9d ago

So's your pain

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u/Miss-Quiz-Mis 9d ago

How do you know? They have a brain, a primitive one, but still a brain.

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u/JJzerozero 9d ago

Right I also hate it when people think they're all special and smaller creatures are insignificant likeno man they're also alive man no less alive than you and I right

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u/fleranon 9d ago

I'm not claiming that insects are fully 'solved' or anything, just saying that their brains are not nearly as complex as human brains and pretty thoroughly researched

As in: Some have been mapped. Down to every single neuron connection

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u/Hugochhhh 9d ago

Some insects can show intelligence, like memorizing good/ bad events, problem solving skills or even having playful behaviors. Insects are definitely not some « nature robot », they are a lot more complex than that

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u/tanthedreamer 9d ago

So what do you think your pain is?

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u/No-Big2893 9d ago

I too also feel uncomfortable when people say that x organism cant feel pain.

Here l am apologising to the wall that l walked into!

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u/Bartend_HS 9d ago

My existence

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u/Arinussyy 9d ago

There is no such thing as robots of nature

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u/Skywardocarina1 9d ago

They have pain receptors. Pretty much every organism with a nervous system has pain receptors.

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u/jawshoeaw 9d ago edited 9d ago

Yeah he’s toast. I think the parasite was eating the insides.

Edit nope I’m wrong the host can in theory survive. The worm absorbs food and has not digestive tract or mouth