A Mantis Exorcism

[George K]

[Mik]

wow. more parasite than bug.

[Jolly]

That's amazing...

[bachophile]

and here I thought that was Klaus getting a colono prep.

[taiwan_girl]

That was quite amazing. The guy had good chopstick skills to keep from hurting the mantis. LOL

[George K]

I showed this to Mrs. George. She asked how the videographer knew that there was a parasite in the mantis.

[Axtremus]

Some follow up tweet says most praying mantises are infected by worms, so chances are good that when one captures a mantis, it is infected with worms already. If the videographer tries a mantis and gets no worm, he will just move on to another mantis anyway.

Also found this interesting video of another species of mantis, the Orchid Mantis:

[taiwan_girl]

Evolutionn is amazing.