Five disgusting parasites

[alfredo]

A good bed time story for you guys.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/LIVING/personal/08/31/houseguests.hell/index.html

A taste of the article

When that fateful day arrives, she finds a chink in the crab's armor (usually an elbow or leg joint) and thrusts a kind of hollow dagger into its body. After that, she (how to put this?) "injects" herself into the crab, sluicing through the dagger and leaving behind a husk.

Once inside, the jellylike sacculina starts to take over. She grows "roots" that extend to every part of the crab's body -- wrapping around its eyestalks and deep into its legs and arms. The female feeds and grows until eventually she pops out the top of the crab, and from this knobby protrusion, she will steer the Good Ship Unlucky Crab for the rest of their commingled life.



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I especially like the one that eats tongues.

[DarkTirade]

1. Huh.

Kinda reminds me of a few of my exes...




I keed, I keed. It only reminds me of one of my exes. :evilgrin:

[LuckyTheDog]

21. Or the Romney brothers

http://fivebrothers.mittromney.com/

When I read "Five disgusting parasites" I immediately thought of them.

[RebelOne]

2. They're all disgusting, but the article is funny as hell. n/t

[gr8dane_daddy]

3. My five...

5. Brownie
4. Wolforwitz
3. Gonzalez
2. Cheney
1. Bush

[HuskerDU]

8. T-mobile

Least Fave 5!

[ironflange]

10. You forgot this one

[alfredo]

12. Crab lice?

[ironflange]

17. No. . .

[alfredo]

19. The battery must have run down.

[zanne]

4. Wow. That's nightmare material.

Thanks ALOT Alfredo!:hi:

[alfredo]

5. Yer welcomed

[Fire Walk With Me]

6. Sounds like the capitalists/Republican party.

[alfredo]

7. I was thinking the insurance industry.

[Fire Walk With Me]

9. So long as there is blood, there will be bloodsuckers.

[alfredo]

11. Like the guys at Exxon and Humana.

[no name no slogan]

13. No Paris Hilton?

That's not hot

[alfredo]

14. We didn't want to offend the parasites.

[Deep13]

15. I'm just marking this so I can check it later at home.

Call it a morbid curiosity.

[alfredo]

16. I guess that is why we follow politics.

[pokerfan]

18. Spider wasp family Pompilidae

Females of various wasp species locate their prey and sting them. This paralyses the prey but does not kill them. The paralysed prey is then carried or dragged to the nest that in some cases is prepared before prey capture. This often involves enormous effort. The prey is then stored in the nest and once the nest is sufficiently stocked, the wasp lays her eggs. The eggs hatch and the larvae then have live food on which to feed. The prey lasts as long as required for the wasp larva to mature and dies by the time the wasp larva pupates.

[MysticalChicken]

20. I was happy to see...

that my favorite parasite, Leucochloridium paradoxum, is included.

I've seen video of it in action. It's creepy and psychedelic.