You’re not likely to witness a horsehair worm making its exit from a praying mantis, but if you do, it’s quite a sight. The spaghetti-like worm, under wet conditions, gradually wiggles out of its host ...

Threadlike worms living in the guts of certain insects make their hosts jump into water and drown. What scientists knew about these parasites resembling strands of spaghetti was already pretty bizarre ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Horsehair worms can control a host's brain and steer it to water, where it drowns. Scientists have studied the worms' ...

Scientists have described Gordius nixus, the first horsehair worm species ever recorded from Pakistan, after repeatedly ...

The other day, when I was about to park my car in the apartment parking lot, I stepped on something green.I got out of the ...

My grandson Parker recently sent me an email and one of the strangest animal photos I have ever received. Most of my ecologist colleagues have never seen the critter that Parker found, but he knew ...

It’s hard to believe that something as creepy-looking and diabolic as the horsehair worm is harmless to humans, pets, plants and livestock. But the long, thin worms only are after arthropods like ...

Once you become an adult with more than enough experience, you gain the mental space to pause and wonder, "Why is it like that?" regarding things you simply turned away from in your youth because you ...

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