Horse hairworm and mantis (IMAGE)

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Horse hairworm and mantis

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Chordodes horse hairworms use mantids as definitive hosts. After maturing in the mantids, they manipulate their hosts to enter water bodies where the parasites reproduce.

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Takuya Sato

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