You think you are looking at a snail? Hah! You're looking at a worm in snail's clothing, a parasite *wearing* a snail.īody-snatching monsters in fiction holds no horror for me - they exist in reality, and I confront them on a daily basis - after all, it's my day job. And all of them, all FIFTEEN THOUSAND of them, zombifies their molluscan first host completely - at least in body, if not in their mind as well. It sure does bend your brain to understand how they went from who you thought you knew to this. MeOh (original poster member 53195) posted at 9:03 PM on Monday, April 24th, 2023. We all feel like aliens have taken over our beloveds. BW M 34years, Dday 1: March 2018, Dday 2: August 2019, D final 2/25/21. Zombies may still be a thing of fiction, but some parasites more or less turn their hosts into the walking dead. Here's a fun fact - there are over 15000 described species of digenean trematodes (with many, many more undescribed species) and they all (except for half a dozen or so species) use either a gastropod (e.g: a snail) or a bivalve (e.g: a clam) obligately as first intermediate host in their life-cycles. The topic is archived but I was able to Google disco zombie snails surviving infidelity and find it. The breeder box uses any simple air pump to flow water at a slow pace through it. The ingested parasite settles in the digestive system of the bird. With all its defenses down and featuring stark red, yellow and green patterns, the snail is soon devoured. It totally loses it conscience and sense of its good and harm. Our intrepid parasite first castrates the unfortunate snails, leaving intact only the organs necessary to keep it alive, then takes control of its behaviour to try and convince a bird that it is in fact a pair of tasty caterpillars. If you dont have the ability to add normal refugium, get a Marina medium breeder box, rig a light over the lid, hang on aquarium and place a lump of chaeto in it. The snail becomes a zombie, inert, unresponsive and single-minded. Leucochloridium paradoxum is a digenean trematode which uses a land snail as both their first intermediate host (where they undergo clonal multiplication) and second intermediate host (the means to reach the definitive host - where it can get up to hanky panky with other worms of its own species). However, for those of us in the know, the less palatable truth is that parasites that take control of their hosts appears to be the norm rather than the exception.
The flatworm Leucochloridium paradoxum infects two different animals in its lifetime, but only controls. Then they move on, taking note of that story to save for a cocktail party or something. They turn their much-larger victims into zombies 1. Halloween Special: Real-Life Zombies In a spooky coup, a parasitic worm hijacks a snails brain and makes the snail sacrifice itself to a hungry bird. Parasites that manipulate the behaviour of their host always get one of those "Wow, freaky nature huh?"-reaction from the general public. The adorable Leucochloridium paradoxum - everyone's favourite mind-bending parasite.
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