How do nematodes make a praying mantis dive?

Why do nematodes often control praying mantis to commit suicide by diving? After reading it, it will be clear to you.

Because it's hot, you have to jump into the water" This complexity is far more than the IQ of the praying mantis.

The nematode controls the movement of the praying mantis and then emerges from its abdomen.

Took control of the praying mantis's nervous system and headed for a place where there was water.

Took control of the praying mantis's brain and let it go to the pond.

Like many other insects, some praying mantis are phototaxis.

Because praying mantis has the characteristic of phototaxis.

Let the praying mantis go to find water on its own when it is thirsty.

It depends on the behavior.

There are two main reasons why the nematodes die as soon as they come out:

The first is because when the praying mantis finds a source of water, the nematodes will drive the mantis to jump into the water and drown, so that they can break their stomachs and enter the water to reproduce.

The second is that even if there is no water source, the nematode will burst out of its abdomen when it matures, causing the mantis to be injured and die.

Characteristics of nematodes.

Wire worms are parasites.

The general term for the worms of the class Ironworms, also known as hair-shaped snakes, capillary nematodes, and Gordius nematodes.

It belongs to the phylum Linear Animals, and there are about 250-300 species in the world.

The nematode is elongated, horse-haired, up to about 1 meter long, and the adults live freely in seawater or freshwater, and the larvae are mainly parasitic on arthropods.

In the body, after maturation, it returns to the water to lay eggs.

After the eggs of the iron worm are drunk into the body by the insect in the water, they will hatch and parasitize inside, especially in the body of the praying mantis, and need to return to the water to lay eggs after maturity, so it will break out of the abdomen, resulting in injury and death of the insect.

It's easy for us to drink larvae in unclean water. There is a certain chance of contracting nematoasis if you drink it.

This disease can cause urinary tract infections and inflammation, so you should not drink water from a pond and unclean water.

After the nematodes come out, a very small number of praying mantis can survive. Seen in tropical and temperate zones, nematodes live freely in water, occasionally infect humans, and parasitize the digestive tract. The adult worms are linear, dioecious, and the females lay their eggs at the water's edge to grasshoppers.

Insects such as cockroaches and beetles serve as intermediate hosts.

When nematodes are attacked by large arthropods.

Such as praying mantises, locusts.

After ingestion, the larvae continue to develop in these arthropods, and will gradually control the behavior of the host, and when the larvae grow into adults, they will control the host to find water sources and drown the host and burrow out of the host.

The body of the nematode is elongated, horse-haired, and can reach up to 1 meter long. Adults live freely in seawater or freshwater, and the larvae parasitize the arthropods. It is distributed in the northern and southern provinces in China, and is widely distributed in all parts of the world. It can infect the human body through water sources and cause nematoasis.

In scientific research, it is often used as experimental material for zoology.

It depends. Only a very small number of nematodes can survive because the tissues in the mantis's body have been stirred up and cannot support the mantis to survive. When the nematodes are swallowed by large arthropods such as praying mantises and locusts, the larvae continue to develop in these arthropods and will gradually control the behavior of the host, and when the larvae grow into adults, they will control the host to find water sources and drown the host and burrow out of the host.

Praying mantis: The praying mantis, also known as the knife mantis, is an invertebrate and carnivorous insect. In ancient Greece, people regarded the praying mantis as a prophet, and it was also called a prayer insect because the mantis's forearms were raised to look like a praying maiden.

In addition to the polar regions, it is widely distributed all over the world, especially in the tropics. There are more than 2,000 species known in the world. About 147 species are known to China.

Including the Chinese giant mantis, the narrow-winged mantis, the broad axe mantis, the brown mantis, the thin-winged mantis, the green mantis, etc., the praying mantis is an important natural enemy of agricultural pests. The praying mantis is the largest of the insects, with a body length of 55 to 105 mm, and the African praying mantis is the largest in the world, with a streamlined body, mainly green, brown, and also speckled species.

The nematode dies after it comes out, because the nematode grows by eating the internal organs of the mantis in the process of growth, and after maturity, it will control the nervous system of the mantis, driving the mantis to find water, and when it comes out of the mantis's body, the mantis is already an empty shell, so the mantis will die immediately.

Praying mantis and nematodes are hosts.

Because the abdomen of the praying mantis is infected by the water source with the nematode, the nematode takes nutrients from the body of the praying mantis, which will cause malnutrition and other conditions of the praying mantis, and the nematode can feel the change in the environment, control the behavior of the praying mantis, and finally make the mantis close to the pond, and the nematode has the opportunity to lay eggs. The nematode will crawl out of the mantis's excretory mouth and discharge its eggs into the water, and the nematode's mission is complete.

The relationship between the nematode and the praying mantis is parasitic. The nematode is a parasite in the stomach of the praying mantis. Praying mantis is the host of nematodes. The nematode absorbs nutrients from the praying mantis. When it grows to a certain extent, it will induce the praying mantis to find water, and then burrow out of the mantis and return to the water.

Parasitic relationship is a kind of antagonistic relationship, which refers to the fact that one small organism lives in the body of another larger organism, uses another microorganism as the living substrate, grows and reproduces in it, and brings more or less harmful effects to the latter.

Parasitism exists between animals, between plants, and between animals and plants. Parasitism inside the host body is called endoparasitism, and parasitism on the surface of the host body is called ectoparasitism.

Parasitism is very common in the biological world. Ascaris, pork tapeworms, and schistosomes parasitize people and other animals, lice and fleas parasitize animals, barnacles parasitize whales and turtles, and so on.

No, because the nematodes will control the host to jump into the water and drown and then break out.

Adult nematodes inhabit rivers, ponds and ditches, and the eggs laid by females hatch larvae in the water, which are eaten by insects or humans and live as parasitists. When this insect is swallowed by large arthropods such as praying mantises, locusts, etc., the larvae continue to develop in these arthropods and will gradually control the behavior of the host, and when the larvae grow into adults, they will control the host to find water source and drown the host and burrow out of the host.

Nematodes do not like praying mantises, as long as they are arthropods, they may be parasitized by nematodes, such as locusts, cockroaches, crickets, etc.

When the mother nematode lays its larvae, any carnivorous insect can be parasitized by the larvae. However, the mantis has the greatest chance of being the top creature of the carnivorous insect pyramid, so the most common thing that people are parasitized by the nematode is the praying mantis.

Generally speaking, not every praying mantis has nematodes in its body, but similar to arthropods like praying mantises, the probability of being parasitized by nematodes is actually quite high, and the main reason is that the females of nematodes will hatch the larvae in some water sources, and these larvae will enter the body and form parasitism after being swallowed by arthropods like praying mantises.

Then, the larvae will grow in these organisms until the mature stage, and then the nematodes will force the parasitic organisms to go to the water source, and then break away, so as to reproduce, so the general carnivorous insect infection probability will be much higher, and the praying mantis, as the overlord of the carnivorous insects, has the highest natural infection rate.