Also in the animal Kingdom can be pretty scary. Parasites transform beetles into mindless Zombies and spider babies eat their mother. Fancy three short Horror stories for Halloween? Please be nice.
Horror 1: mom, you taste so good
A mother’s love is something so Beautiful. Altruism in completion. Everything for the Well-being of the Little ones. Sometimes to the point of self-sacrifice. Young life – even if the mother is about to die. S not, there’you think? But! A spider (Stegodyphus lineatus) operates this most extreme Form of the “mother’s love”: The cute Little eat – as soon as you are hungry hatched from their eggs – the mother.
Sounds scary, but it seems to be in the genes of these spiders are pre-programmed. Researchers have found that the body of the mother animal degrades already before the eggs. This process continues and accelerates, even as soon as the offspring is hatched.
During this decay in the time-lapse pace of the dying spider vomits juices your body, to which the babies feed. Just before the mother dies, sucking the Small completely empty. After that, you leave flight the Nest.
Horror 2: Mindless Zombies
Ladybugs are fierce fighters, and fearsome predators known. Birds and other predators keep away from them. After all, nothing tastes more disgusting than the yellow Secretion that constricts a defense of the ladybug.
This inviolability is the use of a tiny insect on a perfidious way. In order to survive even a successful, stands the three-Millimeter small brackish wasp (Dinocampus cocinellae) a ladybug in the abdomen and injects him with an Egg. The hatching larva feeds on the body juices of the beetle and eats away at him slowly.
Nevertheless, the ladybug is not more on aphid hunting, feeds on but but the growing parasites. Sometime s, the larva is too tight, it squeezes through a gap in the armour of the beetle. Thus, the most dangerous Phase is about to begin for you. You must pin in a cocoon one and the full-grown wasp transform. So, it makes your still-living host in the mindless body guard.
As long as no danger threatens, remains the ladybug motionless, the wasp’s cocoon. But as soon as a predator approaches, he strikes wildly with his legs and distributes the attacker. Only when the wasp hatches and flies off, is redeemed, the ladybug and dies.
Don’t be alarmed! It is only a deep-sea angler fish
Horror 3: On always United
Deep sea fish need to be creative. Because where you live – in over 1000 meters of sea depth, it is pitch dark, cold and extremely difficult, to Eat or to find a Partner. However, have deep-sea fish, developed the most absurd strategies, for example, huge mouths, or light organs. The deep sea angler fish, comes in to be creepy, therefore, has thought up something particularly eerie, to bind his partner for life.
In the case of the angler fish, the female animals compared to males huge. In the species Ceratias holboelli, for example, the females are 1.20 meters long, the males barely two inches. The male hits after the most frustrating year-long search in the dark Black of the deep sea on a partner, docks with it and stop to eat. Then the skins of the young couple grow together, and later the Blood circuits.
Finally, the jaw-bone of the male form and it merges completely with the female. Only the gills remain to him and of course the sexual organs, as needed. In this miserable situation, the males – it’s everything you can – if necessary, seeds. In the case of some deep-sea angler fish of the entire male body dissolves to the testicles.