Post images of an organism using another organism as a host body. Fictional or real life.

Let's celebrate the joys of parasitism together.

Click here for a disgusting image that you'll regret seeing.

(cordyceps fungus)

That is so fuggin nasty.

Post that fake pic with the fingers and i'll hunt you down and kill you.

Yeah, thanks for that.

It's just insects.

More cordyceps fungus fun (and I assume this one is less ..disturbing).

I sooo.. read that as orgasm.

twice.

then a third time.

then I got it.

There are loads of varieties of those cordyceps fungi, all specialised to a particular breed of insect. Some species of ants go nuts if they detect an infected member and escort it as far away as possible from the nest to avoid the entire colony succumbing to mushrooms taking over their brains before sprouting out of their heads.

I present to you Cymothoa exigua, a parasitic isopod that preys on the Spotted Rose Snapper fish. It attaches itself inside the fish's mouth at the base of its tongue and starts to draw blood, as the parasite grows, the tongue withers. The parasite then attaches itself to the muscle stumps and acts as a replacement tongue for the fish. The fish can still control it much like it's old tongue but now the parasite gets to get first dibs on anything the fish eats.
It's just so insanely nifty the way it effectively replaces the tongue.


Read Parasite Rex by Carl Zimmer, it's icky but the methods parasites use to overcome their host's immune system are fascinating.

This thread needs: Sacculina parasitic barnacle, toxoplasma and its mind changing abilities, guinea worms, filarial worms, parasitic wasps who lay different types of larvae to defeat the host's immune system and ensure a high female to male ratio in the next generation, and perhaps, if you regard young as being parasites in many respects, the feeding habits caecilians.

Are you talking about the lotus fingers thing?

It maybe fake, but it's nasty.

I used to be a parasite. Here's a pikter of me.

I knew that would happen.

Horsehair worm emerging from cricket

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlEusQAiC-o

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D:

Damn, that's alot of worm in one small cricket.

I always wondered how certain parasitic organisms delicately interact with the brain of its host body without completely lobotomizing it.

This parasite latches onto large fat men and takes partial credit for all of said fat-man's accomplishments in fighting tournaments.

Kirb's attempt at being a parasite fails.

The link redirects to the sites main page.

I thought this thread wa gwan be about liberals

Paras, Parasect.

oh god that is horrifying

new deal

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeerk

I used to read these in Jr. High, good times.