care of spiders is quite common , and our eight - legged friends often get a spoilt time out . If you see one in your sign of the zodiac , it ’s hard to excuse in that moment that it ’s probably only there because your planetary house also has flock of other things for it to eat . Without even thinking , it ’s wanton to reach for a shoe ( or something else that you do n’t listen being covered in guts ) and ruin it , or extend to for a pesticide spray ( or piece of furniture polish or Lysol , depending on what ’s handy ) and drench it with half the can until it stops kicking .

Presumably , the soul - bite terror will subside as soon as the wanderer is dead , but what if thing actually get worse later ? AfterBrent Askwithsprayed a wanderer in his sign of the zodiac in Australia , a long , brown worm circumstantially crawled out of the wanderer ’s corpse . He recorded the insect and upload it onto YouTube with the very accurate championship : “ WTF IS THIS ? ! ? ”

Let ’s take a looking at at the worm , before we do Askwith ’s question about WTF it actually is :

Since the television ’s release , there has been some debate over the identity of the worm . While many assume it is a Gordian worm , also have a go at it as a horsehair worm , it is more likely a member of the family Mermithidae . Though both type of worms are endoparasites and look incredibly similar , Mermithids have a largerdocumented historyof infecting spiders , while Gordian worm are more commonly regain attacking being like beetles , roach , and crickets .

Mermithidae reproduce in the pee and the eggs are often ingested by louse . When the insect hatches , it begin to exhaust and eventually go dormant . When the primary host is take in by a wanderer , the worm becomes participating again and can grow up to 10 centimetre long .

While we know Askwith used quite a bit of pesticide to kill the wanderer ( note the liquidity and the foam in the television ) , it ’s not entirely clear how much napalm he used on his sign after the louse emerged .

observe : Use of pesticides is not advocate by most entomologists . However , in this instance , it was likely doing the wanderer a favor .

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