After finding something strange about a potato bug's abdomen, this guy placed in a water tank and saw a giant horsehair worm leave its body. This parasite started leaving the body when the guy applied a little pressure to the bug and swam in water after leaving its host.
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00:00So this is a horsehair worm coming out of a potato bug. You may have seen the
00:11videos of horsehair worms coming out of praying mantises, but this is one coming
00:19out of a potato bug, and these are parasites. I'm just applying pressure to
00:30the potato bug even though it looks like I'm squashing him. I'm not, but he's gonna
00:37die either way when that leaves.
00:49I think in the old videos of the praying mantis, multiple of these came out, but he's just
01:08getting more and more deflated as this is leaving. Oh my god, that is really
01:23trippy. It's actually a spaghetti. I know. Jesus, it is so long. It's in water right
01:40now.
01:42Holy hell, that is actually freaky. This big of a parasite was actually just in
02:00that potato bug, and it's still coming out.
02:03Yeah, this is definitely going on YouTube.
02:14Still getting more and more deflated.
02:36Jesus.
02:39That's the whole thing. I'm gonna take it out. What happens if I take it out of the water?
02:50Can you hold that camera real quick? I'm gonna, like, pull it out. It's stuck to the glass.
03:08Use the other side. That's really dumb of me.
03:18Oh my god, there it is. Slurp it up. Ew. Even for me, that is, that is something.
03:31Crazy. Oh, that's really weird.
03:38It looks like the potato bug might actually be recovering after that. Let's, now that we got the
03:43parasite out, let's get him out here and see if we can get him released. So now he's kind of coming to, if he survives that parasite
03:54leaving his body, we'll release him. He's not looking too good right now.