parasites

minty · 27 apr 2015 om 14:45

this

is greenland shark. yes, greenland has it's very own shark... he is cute n cuddly n happy n even appears to have a smile...
but when you look closer at his eye

you can see it has a parasite in it. the parasite is called a copepod. in some study i found online and totally didn't make up, these crustaceans were so commonly found that apparently about 85% of greenland sharks have them in both of their eyes while roughly 14% have them in one, meaning about 99% of greenland sharks have creatures eating their eyeball, meaning most of them are blind or very close to being blind

post parasites, discuss parasites, etc
no jews plz... i don't care if they are humanity's parasite

minty · 27 apr 2015 om 17:40

It is as astonishing as it is sad to watch a ladybug turn into a zombie. Normally ladybugs are sophisticated and voracious predators. A single individual may devour several thousand aphids in a lifetime. To find a victim, it first waves its antennae to detect chemicals that plants release when they’re under attack by herbivorous insects. Once it has homed in on these signals, the ladybug switches its sensory scan to search for molecules released only by aphids. Then it creeps up and strikes, ripping the aphid apart with barbed mandibles.
Ladybugs are also well protected against most of their enemies. Their red-and-black dome, so adorable to the human eye, is actually a warning to would-be predators: You will regret this. When a bird or some other animal tries to attack, the ladybug bleeds poison from its leg joints. The attacker tastes the bitter blood and spits the ladybug out. Predators learn to read the red-and-black wing covers as a message to stay away.
A predator protected from other predators, the ladybug would seem to have the perfect insect life—were it not for wasps that lay their eggs inside its living body.
One of these wasps, Dinocampus coccinellae, is about the size of an ice-cream sprinkle. When a female wasp is ready to lay an egg, she alights near a ladybug and swiftly inserts her stinger into its underside, injecting an egg into her victim along with a blend of chemicals. When the egg hatches, the larva feeds on the fluids that fill its host’s body cavity.
Though the ladybug is gradually being devoured, on the outside it seems unchanged. It goes on attacking aphids with abandon. But after it has digested its prey, its parasite feeds and grows on the resulting nutrients. Some three weeks later, the wasp larva has grown so much that it is ready to leave its host and develop into an adult. It squirms out through a chink in the ladybug’s exoskeleton.
Even though the ladybug’s body now is free of the parasite, its mind remains enthralled. As the wasp larva wraps itself in a silk cocoon beneath it, the ladybug remains immobile.
From the wasp’s point of view, this is a very positive development. A growing D. coccinellae wasp nestled in its cocoon is intensely vulnerable. Lacewing larvae and other insects will happily devour it. But if one of these predators approaches, the ladybug will thrash its limbs, scaring off the attacker. In effect it has become the parasite’s bodyguard. And it will continue to loyally play this role for a week, until an adult wasp cuts a hole through the cocoon with its mandibles, crawls out, and flies away.
Only then do most of the ladybug zombies die, their service to their parasite overlord complete.

interesting read
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/11/mindsuckers/zimmer-text

Satamprazeiros · 27 apr 2015 om 17:59

OH BOY!!!!

I LOVE THESE KIND OF VIDEOS

and cysts, anyone thats been on Cytube while Im adding shit can attest to this

minty · 27 apr 2015 om 18:06

Satamprazeiros zei: ↑

OH BOY!!!!

this looks like one of those zit popping vids, except with a dog...

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