The praying mantis has a nematode in its stomach, what manifestations will it have?

Nematodes are a general term for a large group of parasites, also known as hair snakes or capillary nematodes, and in the animal kingdom they have their own separate order of nematodes, which contains about 250-300 species of nematodes. Adults live mainly in rivers, ponds or small ditches, and can be up to 1 meter long, but they are very small.

Clematodes are dioecious, females often lay eggs near rivers, and most of these eggs are eaten by arthropods, such as praying mantises, locusts, etc., and the eggs will develop and grow in their bodies. If humans accidentally eat this kind of eggs, they will also parasitize in our digestive tract, and generally infected with the human body may cause nematoasis, which occurs mostly in women's bodies. The place where the nematode appears most is the arthropod, and the friends who live in the countryside often see the dead praying mantis and locusts, crawling out of the slender insects, most of them are nematodes, and they have almost become adults at this time.

Wire worms grow in the body of the praying mantis, we know that the parasitic relationship is "eat and drink for nothing", the nematodes will consume the nutrients in the body of the mantis, and when the nematodes grow to a certain size, they will induce the mantis to find water, at this time the mantis will be drowned, and the nematodes will be fished out of the mantis's stomach and return to the water. The nematode only returns to parasitize in the larval stage, and when it grows into an adult, it returns to the water source to find its "other half". Therefore, when you see praying mantis swimming around in the water, they are not drinking water or crossing the river, but are actually controlled by the nematode.

Therefore, if the carcasses of such arthropods are found in the river, there are usually nematodes in the river. Of course, we can also catch praying mantis and put them in the water, which may surprise you after a while.

In fact, praying mantis infected with nematodes, especially in the later stages, can be seen from the appearance in general, even thin male mantis will have a big belly and eat a lot of food**. However, due to the parasitism of the body iron worm in the body, the overall performance is not very active. And due to the presence of nematodes, praying mantis will exhibit phototaxis, and they will also stay on the front of the leaves in the hot summer.

There is also the possibility of human infection with nematodes, the only thing we should pay attention to is to stay away from polluted water bodies, let alone drink them. At the same time, try to eat cooked food and avoid raw food, which will avoid the parasitism of nematodes with a high probability. At the same time, those who live in the countryside should also pay attention to avoid going to unclean places for wild bathing, especially female friends.

When walking on the waterway, it will walk slowly, there will be a red line in the body, the temper will not be short-tempered, the temperament will be very gentle, and the reaction will be slow, the praying mantis is a beneficial animal.

1. The larvae of the nematode live in the water or parasitize the body of the arthropod, when the praying mantis is close to the water source to drink, or prey on the parasitic insects, the larvae of the nematode will enter the body of the praying mantis.

2. Until the nematode larvae mature in the belly of the praying mantis, it will drive the mantis to jump into the water source, and then burrow out of the belly of the praying mantis and enter the water to mate and lay eggs.

3. After the nematode as a larva is drunk into the stomach by the praying mantis, the larvae have a "house" that can provide a steady stream of food, and the body wall of the nematode larvae at this time will secrete digestive enzymes that can dissolve the tissues in the host for my use, with the support of nutrition, the larvae of the nematode begin to grow and develop, after several molts, the larvae slowly grow into larvae, and the host (praying mantis) body at this time is slowly hollowed out.

4. Until the larvae develop into adults, the strong "dominance" ability of the nematode is revealed. It will manipulate the praying mantis to come to the top of the water source, and then let the praying mantis actively jump into the water, after reaching the water, the adult nematode will "break the ground" from the mantis's body, and finally, the praying mantis completes its "mission", turning into an empty shell, drifting with the current.

5. Adult nematodes look for the opposite sex in the water to start the continuation of life. That is to say, once the mantis is infected with the nematode, it will definitely die, which is the effect of the nematode on the praying mantis.