Female horsehair appears to have a round and slightly swollen posterior end of their body, while males have a narrowed end.

Both species have the same six cuticular structures of areoles on the surface, the significantly longer filaments on the female crowned areoles.

Morphology Ĭhordodes formosanus is morphologically similar to Chordodes japonensis. These worms can grow up to 90 cm long and can be extremely dangerous for their host, especially the praying mantis. Horsehair worms are obligate parasites that pass through different hosts at various stages. This parasite usually gets its host to commit suicide by water, thus, killing its host in water, as does the legendary Kraken.Chordodes formosanus is a horsehair worm that has the praying mantis as its definitive host. Once people are getting diagnosed, Scientists and Doctors can study and document how this organism is affecting humans, and together we can find a cure for this nightmare. Hopefully, I will list all the symptoms as they appeared, in order, so that people, Dr.'s, and Scientists, can find all the information in one place.īetween this page, and my other pages, I hope there is enough information for people to start getting diagnosed with the parasite symptom / symptoms in humans. I will try to make this page as factual and easy to follow as possible. I also have a blog: where you can type 'parasites' into the search box at the bottom of the home page to view the many posts about my journey. Here is a link to my parasite playlist on that channel. I have a YouTube channel, 'thesecretisgratitude' where I have documented my story.

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