Nightmare fuel

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• very_well_lost@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  For anyone else who was as curious as I was: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/butterflies-parasitic-wasps-finland

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  • Jean_le_Flambeur@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Uff

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  • motor_spirit@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    well that’s just a lot of fun

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  • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This would make a good Alien movie. We’ll call it-- Alienception!

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• muhyb@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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• ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  A foundational memory for me was a fish dissection in middle school in which we respectfully sliced the innards of one of these bad boys only to find this exact parasite inside. All the other groups just had a fish to dissect, but we also took a supercurricular lab detour to dissect that other thing too, as my classmates from other groups gathered around with real curiosity.

  Frankly haven’t thought much of it in years. Would be cool to know what this is actually called.

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  • belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymothoa_exigua

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    • flora_explora@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Oh wow, the first one sounds mean. Never heard of an isopod parasite (but I’d now guess there are many more aquatic ones?). And inducing necrosis of the tongue to be the new fish’s organ, ouch :O

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    • Spacehooks@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      emergence of three other species, which sprang out of the butterfly like Russian dolls.

      That was a good read thanks mate. Now all I can think of is a chest buster coming out of a chest buster and then another chest buster comes out of that one and cant stop laughing at the absurdity of knowing Xzibit did this. Image

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    • ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceratothoa_oestroides

      Geographically given where I am, it’s probably this one

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    • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Finland

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      I did not expect this.

      Also in the archipelago, which I love close to. Usually there sorts of stories are from Australia.

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  • spinne@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymothoa_exigua

    This is an example of the type of tongue-replacing creature you found, not necessarily the same species.

    So that’s a fun twofer: you know a possible name for what you saw, and you know that a parasite replacing a host’s organ is one of nature’s fun survival strategies!

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    • ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Horrifying. Thanks for the link, although to be honest I probably could have googled “fish tongue parasite isopod” at some point in the past decade+.

      Interesting that the Wikipedia page has photos that wouldn’t have rang the bell for me, the one I remember was exactly like the one in the post.

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    • ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Seems like a similar species is common where I am.

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceratothoa_oestroides

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  • WellTheresYourCobbler@hexbear.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That sounds fascinating woah

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• Rose_Thorne@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Alright, time to burn down all of Finland. Just reduce everything to ash. In fact, nuke the ash after we’re done. Maybe add some salt after that. Nothing can live there anymore.

  We’ll just be extra careful this time, can’t have a second Australia situation.

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  • oftheair@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You have no chance. They have knives and no care.

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• devilish666@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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• gasgiant@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s wasps all the way down…

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