Jan 14, 2013
Huge parasitic worm coiling out of a huge dead spider
Australian skater/videographer Brent Askwith was working on a film when he saw a huge spider. He killed it with some insecticidal spray and then this happened…
(via Gawker)
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I found myself feeling sorry for the spider and the worm…somehow. Still pretty gross though.
I don’t feel sorry for either one of those monsters. So nasty. The Earth would do well without either of them, I trust.
Dude did the spider a favor, for sure.
THAT was nasty. I do kinda feel sorry for the spider because it must be horrible to have a huge parasite like that living inside you. :/ But that worm was gross! I wonder why the spray didn’t kill it?
Maybe those are its throes.
will not be able to sleep for days.
It’s a nematode
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/11/parasitic-worm-video-nematode-dead-spider_n_2457502.html#slide=732141
I think it’s neat.. even if it is freakishly huge
That pretty much killed my appetite for the ramen noodles I brought for lunch…
Placentonema gigantisma is supposed to be 8 meters long. it infects sperm whales
if you are interested in spider worms or worms that parasitize spiders, google Mermithid Worm
Little fleas have littler fleas
upon their backs to bite ‘em.
And littler fleas have tinier fleas
and so on ad infinitum.
All of God’s creatures have pests that prey upon them, even the smallest.
Moral of story: Don’t go to Australia. Ever.
That was gag worthy
Dear Lord that was unbelievably gross
Until about :37, I wondered if it would ever get all the way out, if there was an end. I mean, I knew it had to have another end…
It may have been a trick of lighting, but I’d swear that the abdomen of the spider collapsed a little towards the end. That squicked me more than the worm itself coming out.