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The parasitic Nematomorph hairworm

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Is a parasitic worm that makes the grasshopper it invades jump into water and commit suicide, it does so by chemically influencing its brain,Somehow mature hairworms brainwash their hosts into behaving in way they never usually would – causing them to seek out and plunge into water

Once in the water the mature hairworms – which are three to four times longer that their hosts when extended – emerge and swim away to find a mate, leaving their host dead or dying in the water.

Liv long and prosper.... Dash x

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By *isaB45Woman
over a year ago

Fabville

I'm not sure what I was expecting to read here, but certainly not that

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By *lem-H-FandangoMan
over a year ago

salisbury

Almost as scary a rabies making people bite other people to spread the virus..

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

I'm a dickhead, but I'm an interesting dickhead

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It's the beginning of the end of mankind.

First grasshoppers...then humans.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I'm a dickhead, but I'm an interesting dickhead"

Debatable!

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"I'm a dickhead, but I'm an interesting dickhead

Debatable!"

Fair comment

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By *isaB45Woman
over a year ago

Fabville


"I'm a dickhead, but I'm an interesting dickhead"

Never said you were a dickhead!!

Odd, yes. Interesting. Dull? Never!

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"It's the beginning of the end of mankind.

First grasshoppers...then humans."

It's a bit like that film prometheous

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By *abs..Woman
over a year ago

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I hope that doesn’t give me nightmares.

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By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

Anyone fancy a swim

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Your just interesting and amusing Dash...lovely too

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Anyone fancy a swim"

Yes, I do...lol...

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By *wisted999Man
over a year ago

North Bucks

Isn’t there a parasite that makes you want to hang out with cats.

(I may have simplified it a little but I’m sure there is)

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Isn’t there a parasite that makes you want to hang out with cats.

(I may have simplified it a little but I’m sure there is) "

Toxoplasma gondii

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Isn’t there a parasite that makes you want to hang out with cats.

(I may have simplified it a little but I’m sure there is)

Toxoplasma gondii"

It makes rats want to shag cats..... Google it

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By *wisted999Man
over a year ago

North Bucks


"Isn’t there a parasite that makes you want to hang out with cats.

(I may have simplified it a little but I’m sure there is)

Toxoplasma gondii

It makes rats want to shag cats..... Google it"

I’m gonna bow to your superior knowledge on this one Dash. Dinners in the oven and you have already put me off my grasshoppers.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Isn’t there a parasite that makes you want to hang out with cats.

(I may have simplified it a little but I’m sure there is)

Toxoplasma gondii

It makes rats want to shag cats..... Google it

I’m gonna bow to your superior knowledge on this one Dash. Dinners in the oven and you have already put me off my grasshoppers. "

I'm going back to work

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By *irenGuy70Man
over a year ago

Cirencester

I heard of one called Ophiocordyceps unilateralis which is a fungus that infects ants in Brazil and Africa. Once infected it makes them move away from the nest and go to around 25cm above the ground on a tree or plant, in a spot with just the right amount of humidity for the fungus to grow. It makes the ant clamp down on a leaf with its mandibles and dies. Shortly afterwards fungal threads emerge from the corpse and then a stalk emerges out of the ant to rain spores down onto the forest floor where they can infect more ants, and so the cycle continues.

Yours sincerely,

David Bellamy.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Isn’t there a parasite that makes you want to hang out with cats.

(I may have simplified it a little but I’m sure there is)

Toxoplasma gondii

It makes rats want to shag cats..... Google it"

It is a parasite that wants to get into cats, it removes the natural fear of cats from rats / mice etc. There is some speculation that it can also get into human brains and suppress natural fear reaction.

Some studies have shown that humans are more likely to have car accidents etc. When infected as they take more risks. But insufficient human brains get sliced and diced to prove the theory.

Microscopic parasites often control brain function, so if you find yourself doing something odd, it may not have been your idea

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