New World Hookworm

But, these small intermediate hosts can be eaten by larger predators such as; trout, perch, and pike. By this happening the sparganum can go to the musculature of the larger predator, which can be fish and mammals. Then the human can catch the diphyllobothariasis disease by eating the infected host fish raw or undercooked. After ingestion of the infected fish, the plerocercoids develop into immature adults and then into mature adult. The adult worms can reach more than 10 meters long. Several of tapeworms regularly detach from the main body of the worm (that’s where they get their name tapeworm from).They then release immature eggs in fresh water to start the cycle all over again. A tapeworm can live up to 20

Glow worms eat snails, small snakes and even other glow worms. They can also eat slugs. The glow worm starts as an egg and takes 3 weeks two mature into a glow worm. After they are matured it takes 9 months to become a pupa. Then the pupa take 2 weeks to mature into an adult flying glow. The glow worms live for about 10 to 11 months until the process

When it comes to the reproduction of the roundworm, the female is bigger than the male. When they mate, females will lay up to 200,000 eggs per day . The affected host will only hold 5,000. The eggs can be found in human feces and or contaminated water. The remaining eggs will be hatched in the intestine. When the host gets infected by the skin, the worm will find an blood vessel and makes it way to the respiratory system. It will then makes it way to throat were the host will swallow them and go through the digestive system and will end up the intestine

The female worms lay eggs up to 50 or 100 eggs. It takes 3 to 6 weeks to hatch the eggs depending on the climate. If its warmer the faster the glow worm eggs will hatch. They glow in the darkness to spot natural predators within the environment. Glow worms

If you want to find a worm, try digging through damp soil or looking on the sidewalk after it rains.

The mealworm is a the larval form of the mealworm beetle. The four stages of insect life start when the mealworm egg is laid in the soil anywhere from a couple of days to a couple of months. After it hatches it sheds its exoskeleton, causing them to be a light brown color. The mealworms favorite meal are grains, like oatmeal and cornmeal. Once they have eaten enough, usually a week or two later, they develop their hard outer shell.

C.Elegans are roundworms or threadworms that are 1mm in length and found living within soil around many parts of the world, these C. Elegans thrive on rotting vegetation where it can survive, feeding on microbes such as bacteria, these C. Elegans are non-infectious, non-pathogenic and non-hazardous. They are of a long cylindrical shape that looks rather tapered at each end. These worms are found in both aquatic and terrestrial free living environment’s.

The Nightcrawler worm is, like other species of worms, a hermaphrodite. Although the worm contains the sexual organs of both the genders, they still need to mate to reproduce. The two worms lie alongside each other and transfer sperm to the both of them. Each worm will lay capsules to be used as a cocoon for the egg. When the capsules break fully formed tiny worms will emerge. It is said that they prefer to mate during the spring and fall time. It takes a year for the tiny worms to fully grow, and it is also said worms live for 3-8 years, although that isn’t

The glow worm is an omnivore that consumes on meat and plant, but it favorites food is snails and other insects. It mostly lives in cave and woods because it’s a nocturnal animal which mean it go out at night. Female glow worms on mating season go out at dark and spend 2 hours trying to get a male with her lights. When they mate it make 50-100 babies in moist areas and it will take 3 to 6 weeks. They are declining because of people and animals {birds}killing them or we are destroying their habitats they live in.

Ascariasis is found in over one billion people worldwide. This type of roundworm can be transmitted into the body if the person gets them on his or her hands then transfers them to their mouth. They are usually found in soil. In countries where people live in poverty the roundworm has a very high chance of being transferred to people. The reason for this is because in some counties people use human feces to fertilize their crops, and they many have poor disposal for their feces. Once someone ingests a ascariasis roundworm it can be transmitted from person to person very fast through infected feces that is not disposed properly. Children are more likely to be infected because they put their hands in their mouth a lot and that can transmit roundworms into the body very fast. Children also are more likely to have symptoms because their intestines are smaller and the worms have less room. Once a child swallows a roundworm egg it passes down into their intestine where it will then hatch into a baby worm called larva. The Larva can pass through the intestine wall into the bloodstream where it will then travel though the lungs up to the throat. They are then swallowed again and go into the small intestine where they grow into adult

An incision was made below the clitellum at around segment 40. The worm was cut on one side of the dorsal blood vessel, starting at the clitellum down to the anus with small scissors. A thin, shiny cuticle began to peel from the worm’s skin. A few times, the intestine was slightly cut and runny, dark brown soil began to seep out. After this, the worm’s clitellum (segments 30 to 38) was cut through to the mouth (segement 1) The worm’s skin was pinned down to the tray,

The parasite Fasciola hepatica (liver fluke) is a leaf like flatworm that is a part of the phylum Platyhelminthes (Grove, 2003). F.hepatica are hermaphrodites enabling all of them to asexually reproduce however they tend to mate with each to ensure genetic diversity and can have many eggs in a day (Grove, 2003). The eggs can survive for up to 6 months in dung until they hatch as miracidium when temperatures are favourable (Lenton and Behm, 2000). These miracidium will move through a moist wet habitat to find and enter aquatic snails or fish as these

Wireworm larvae are a small, slender worm that grows up to 1 ½ inches and resembles the color of a pale yellow or a brownish-red. They primarily feed on young corn plants. When a wireworm reaches its adult stage it is then referred to as a “click beetle.” The click beetle gets its name from the clicking noise they make when they are placed on their back. They lay little white eggs near roots of plants in the soil in the spring. The life cycle of a wireworm/click beetle is anywhere from 4-7 years so they can damage a crop year after year repeatedly if not taken care of. Wireworms are known for hollowing out the seed of a plant and leaving nothing behind except the seed coat. They can also chew right through the roots of a plant causing

First of all, the worm is still greatly adapted to the environment. Worms like darkness so they live underground. The worms´ structure was adapted to move in narrow tunnels. They eat leaves and other decomposed things at night. Also, worms have setae which help

A tapeworms habitat is inside the intestines of humans. Its life is carried out between two hosts, one being the man host and the other is the pig host. Except for the adults, the life is carried out through the body of the secondary host, which would be the pig. Injuries to the mucous membrane lining are a result of the worm living in the intestines. It can even cause mechanical injury of the alimentary canal which causes weakness, abdominal pain, and extreme loss of