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Login/Join to ParticipateGromit's Humble Squire
4,496 posts
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Went to Cedar Creek on the weekend and saw the most bizarre worm in the
water. Moved like a snake in water but looked like opaque fishing line..
Turned out it was a Horsehair or Gordian Worm, and apparently, they do this:
https://lancaster.unl.edu/pest/resources/horsehairworm.shtml
https://www.pimpmefamous.com/story.php?title=cricket-worm-1
Video on the second link is very very very very disturbing.
had her carpal tunnel surgery already thanks v much
4,145 posts
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland (UK)
cooooooooool
"vices are like genitals - most are ugly to behold, and yet we find that our own are dear to us."
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Owner of Dragosani's left half
Macaque of all trades
8,738 posts
Location: wombling free..., United Kingdom
well it put ME off drinking from bird baths
A couple of balls short of a full cascade... or maybe a few cards short of a deck... we'll see how this all fans out.
Carpal \'Tunnel
5,814 posts
Location: Perth, Australia
The world of parasites is truly scary.
I will never eat raw fish or dangle my feel in African water after doing a parasitolgy course
Is it the Truth?
Is it Fair to all concerned?
Will it build Goodwill and Better Friendships?
Will it be Beneficial to all concerned?
Im in a lonely battle with the world with a fish to match the chip on my shoulder. Gnu in Binnu in a cnu
wandering thru the woods of WI
3,556 posts
Location: Wisconsin, USA
i thought there were parasites that crawl into microscopic orifices in the amazon river too
don't pee in the water, that's like a superhighway then
Faith
Nay, whatever comes one hour was sunlit and the most high gods may not make boast of any better thing than to have watched that hour as it passed
Walking on whims...
687 posts
Location: Eastbourne, UK
That was... interesting.
Skatto
"Fly like a mouse,
Run like a cushion,
Be the small bookcase."
For goodness sake, don't aggravate the otters!!!
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