Huge worm crawls out of spider..gross!!

I saw this today. Apparently some guy in Australia was out filming a surfing video when a spider came out of nowhere. He claims he hit it with bug spray and moments later this crawled out ..



Its a horse hair worm. Wiki says about horse hair worms :

About 351 species are known and a conservative estimate suggests that there may be about 2000 species worldwide. The name "Gordian" stems from the legendary Gordian knot. This relates to the fact that nematomorpha often tie themselves in knots.

All in all pretty gross! I dont know what worse the spider or the worm lol

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Interesting scientific display PhoenixOD, is the worm a parasite?

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Yes it seems they infect all sort of insects. I once saw a video of one coming out of a preying mantis on youtube that was probably bigger than this one.

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That makes sense then I couldn't see it from beginning. Interesting still to observe take care

xenomorphs and stuff no, just interesting that's all

Well that is freaky to say the least. I have never seen it happen before.. Usually the only cases I see with spiders are wasps laying eggs in them. Cool find.

Wow! That was AWESOME!

I have seen some crazy things here, but that would definitely be hard to beat!! I will keep this in mind when people offer me insects to eat...

Heres some more horse hair worm fun :

Damn, thats just nasty.

I'm going to guess that the worm is leaving the host because its dead. That was some freaky # right there

Did anyone else feel sorry for the worm LOL?

Poor thing would have felt like it was crawling in acid why not just put it out of its misery rather than spray it and make it suffer a prolonged painful death via chemical burning?

Damn you OP, WHY........why did I click on this - even after the title gave fair warning of grossness.

Yuck.........I'm actually put off pasta now!

Gimme a snake and a crocodile anyday, but you can keep dem damn spiderzzzzz

Seems adult worms are free living but larvae are parasite, they need a host to become adult.

its more parasite/predator assessment

Originally posted by IkNOwSTuff
Did anyone else feel sorry for the worm LOL?

Poor thing would have felt like it was crawling in acid

why not just put it out of its misery rather than spray it and make it suffer a prolonged painful death via chemical burning?

The spider probably wasnt having a good day either..

There's a good show on tv called "monsters inside me" - explains human parasites and assorted nasties......

This thread should be entitled "the monsters inside the monsters"......

How does the worm get so big in relation to it's cricket or spider host..... Disturbing....

PDUK

PS - love some of the music in the back ground :-)

Another thought the spider had a large chance encountering the larvae when eating another creature

Australia...



Seriously though, that was messed up.

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Damn, that was gross.

OMG that is horrifying!!

Kind of neat at the same time though but I wouldn't want to be around that.

I am not a fan of spiders, they tend to make me cower in fear.

Originally posted by IkNOwSTuff
Did anyone else feel sorry for the worm LOL?

Poor thing would have felt like it was crawling in acid

why not just put it out of its misery rather than spray it and make it suffer a prolonged painful death via chemical burning?

No way, I would rather it crawling in acid than crawling up my nose while I was asleep

I have a few questions?

Q. What type of spider is that a tarantula type or smaller?

Q. It that worm a long worm, ring worm or a whip worm found in dogs and Cats?

Q. Did the worm decided to come out because the host was dead?

I didn't know that worms were parasitic to insects and spiders. I thought horse hair worms (see other videos) were found only in water?