Fortunately, there are no reports of horsehair worms brainwashing humans, according to the University of California's Integrated Pest Management Program. If you somehow ate an insect that was ...

The parasitic worms section includes terrestrial and marine Platyhelminthes (flatworms), parasitic Nematoda (roundworms), Nematophorpha (horsehair worms) and Acanthocephala. The collection has ...

Scientists have found over a dozen parasitic worms in the eyes of a black bear, renewing fears that humans could face an emerging danger from the tiny worms that can cause blindness. The black ...

"Horsehair worms have evolved to skillfully manipulate mantises, but conversely by human activity they are strangling their own necks," Sato said. The research results have been published in the U ...