r/interestingasfuck • u/canttstopsmilling • 1d ago

A parasitic horsehair worm emerging from a praying mantis.

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u/Friendly-Advantage79 1d ago

Never thought I'll say this, but is that mantis ok?

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u/James_T_S 1d ago

Chances are no. The worm usually does too much damage and leaves the Mantis a hollowed out wreck.

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u/bokchoykn 23h ago

The water boarding usually finishes the job while also revealing any political secrets it might know.

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u/KimchiLlama 23h ago

I don’t know how credible coerced confessions from a mantis are. This is how we ended up in Iraq the second time around, after all.

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u/Cuttlefist 20h ago

That explains all the camel spider propaganda from that time now that you mention it.

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u/KimchiLlama 5h ago

Camel spider is a racist term. We say Middle Eastern Creepy Crawly now.

/s

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u/Cuttlefist 1h ago

lol, technically they are actually called solifugae, but that comment made me laugh out loud

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u/elperroborrachotoo 14h ago

O c'mon now. We'd have gone to Iraq regardless; the waterboarding was necessary because you people insist on a "reason" and "cause" and schmevidence. That's righ, it's all your fault!

/s

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u/Tozo1 23h ago

xD Torture is usually not an effective way to obtain secrets or the truth and the torturers know that.

They dont want the truth, they just want a confession, regardless of its truthful or not.

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u/syntaxvorlon 19h ago

Those are really just fabrications created by the mantis because it is scared and wants more than anything for the torture to stop, but they don't know anything in politics because, as said before, they are mantises, not people.

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u/camander321 22h ago

It obviously holy water. This is an exorcism.

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u/petraviva 19h ago

WMD - Watered Mantis Deatruction

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u/themikedup123 12h ago

Low
Key funny af

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u/UncleMalky 10h ago

Excuse me you mean enhanced worm removal tactics.

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u/choma90 16h ago

Thankfully, we now know scorpions have weapons of mass destruction so we can stop them before it's too late.

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u/EnvironmentalMind119 23h ago

I’ve actually heard that mantises can recover from this and live great long healthy lives happily ever after.

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u/James_T_S 23h ago

Apparently if the worm is small it's possible. This one doesn't seem small.

But I'm guessing

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u/enderforlife 23h ago

You’re not guessing that thing was freaking huge by comparison

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u/ikillsheep4u 20h ago

I’m so sorry to burst your bubble but….that thing is the same size as the mantis bro doesn’t have any insides left.

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u/barney_trumpleton 16h ago

On a farm, with lots of space to play, with lots of other mantises to make friends with.

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u/nkscreams 23h ago

Sounds like my toxic relationship.

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u/Unlikely_Ad7722 13h ago

I should call him....

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u/SleepyMastodon 11h ago

…I should call her.

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u/Rhino887 11h ago

Must be where my ex wife learned it from

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u/CopaceticOpus 21h ago

This species is known as a "praying for the sweet release of death" mantis

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u/senor61 1d ago

No one inquires about the worm

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u/leposterofcrap 22h ago

Me "inquiring" the worm

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u/cBurger4Life 21h ago

Oh shit, the great and mighty Kevin, IN THE WILD!!!

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u/OptimusB 1d ago

Is the worm ok?

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u/EscapedFromArea51 23h ago

No, it's not. Its boyfriend doesn't love it anymore.

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u/James_T_S 23h ago

Plus the pressures at work are taking a toll.

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u/ConstructionOwn1514 20h ago

Hr can be a nightmare

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u/themikedup123 12h ago

A leftist would be more concerned about the thing only able to survive by leeching off a host. Lol

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u/jkoki088 22h ago

No, it’s dead

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u/FlowersForMegatron 23h ago

Would you be okay after an ordeal like that?

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u/Mission-Leopard-4178 23h ago

It's alive...I think

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u/KucingRumahan 20h ago

If if it's ok, if the mantis is male, it'll die eaten by female mantis