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The Evil Side of Nature
JavaJones:
Yes, it's quite normal, mealworms are regular food for such animals. I'm extremely surprised to hear that they survived the eating and digestion process. In fact unless their identity (on the way out) as mealworms was verified, I might be more inclined to suspect some other parasitic worm got involved. Either way it's creepy though. :P
- Oshyan
Renegade:
Yes, it's quite normal, mealworms are regular food for such animals. I'm extremely surprised to hear that they survived the eating and digestion process. In fact unless their identity (on the way out) as mealworms was verified, I might be more inclined to suspect some other parasitic worm got involved. Either way it's creepy though. :P
- Oshyan
-JavaJones (April 11, 2011, 05:14 PM)
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It's reminiscent of "Aliens", with the little buggers bursting out of people's stomachs. That "inside/outside" distinction is truly a gripping fear in some horror themes.
J-Mac:
Eeewwwww! Why are you people talking about stinking MEALWORMS when we just watched the same video of FREAKING MICE eating their way into a LIVE FREAKING BIRD!!! Aaaahggghhhhhh!
That was a really frightening vid! Forget zombies and werewolves.... at least you can usually hear them coming! But those Russian mice sneaking into sleeping people's beds and eating their way into them?!?! Aaaggghhhh!
Hey - wonder if my daughters will have a problem with me playing this video for my granddaughters? Ya think?? :P
Jim
Deozaan:
Hey - wonder if my daughters will have a problem with me playing this video for my granddaughters? Ya think?? :P-J-Mac (April 13, 2011, 12:00 AM)
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That video is so un-scary and not-graphic that you could probably fool your granddaughters (depending on their age) into thinking the mice are just cleaning the bird's feathers or something benign like that.
JennyB:
That's just your mammalian chauvinism. ;)
-JennyB (April 11, 2011, 06:44 AM)
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Of course!
Have you ever read "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek"?
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Nope
-JavaJones (April 11, 2011, 01:45 PM)
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That's where I first read about the Ichneumon wasp. If the mother wasp does not find a host the eggs will hatch inside her and, yes, eat their way out.
The book is a classic, filled with arresting images of how Nature in heartless and wonderful, often both at the same time.
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