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The mystery of hairworm mind control - how a parasite forces death

Hairworms are parasites with a killing strategy so extreme it looks like mind control. After developing inside an insect host ...
thecooldown

Experts issue warning as harmful 'jumping worms' spread into new US territory: 'Potentially at risk'

The worms, native to East Asia, have been confirmed across much of the Lower Peninsula and even parts of the Upper Peninsula, and scientists are worried about the long-term impacts on Michigan's ...
Ars Technica

Four-inch worm hatches in woman’s forehead, wriggles to her eyelid

If you need some motivation to keep from eating too much this Thanksgiving, here it is: Doctors in Romania pulled an 11 cm (4.3 inch) living, writhing round worm from a woman’s left eyelid. According ...
upnorthlive

Invasive 'jumping worms' from Southeast Asia raise alarm across Michigan's ecosystems

These are worms that came to North America sometime around the late 1800s and they are from Southeast Asia originally,” MSU Extension Consumer Horticulture Educator Nathaniel Walton said. “We've been ...
Lansing State Journal

An Asian earthworm may be ruining your yard, garden. What to know about jumping worms

An invasive Asian earthworm is causing environmental damage, and officials are taking notice of its presence in Michigan. "Michigan State University Extension is beginning to receive sporadic reports ...
MLive

Invasive jumping worms pose growing threat to Michigan’s ecosystems

EAST LANSING, MI – Dozens of reports of invasive jumping worms across Michigan’s Lower Peninsula – and a few in the Upper – are raising concerns about damages to the state’s natural ecosystems.
Popular Science

Zombie worms have gone missing

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Scientific American

Watch These Parasitic Worms Use Static Electricity as a Tractor Beam

At first glance, it’s a wonder that jumping parasitic nematodes exist at all. To reproduce, these minuscule creatures—roughly the size of a pinpoint—hurl themselves up to 25 times their body length to ...
The New York Times

The Electric Worm Gets the Fly

Researchers wanted to quantify how much charge a jumping parasitic roundworm needed to latch on to its fruit fly host.Credit...By Victor M. Ortega-Jimenez Supported by By Alexa Robles-Gil For small ...
earth

Scientists 'reanimate' a worm that was frozen in Siberian permafrost for over 46,000 years

In Siberian permafrost, scientists thawed ancient soil and saw tiny nematodes move. These animals “woke up” after an extremely long freeze and resumed life functions in the lab. Their revival raises ...
Science Daily

This tiny worm uses static electricity to hunt flying insects

A parasitic worm uses static electricity to launch itself onto flying insects, a mechanism uncovered by physicists and biologists at Emory and Berkeley. By generating opposite charges, the worm and ...