Exotic eye worm rapidly invades US by spreading from testes of fruit flies
Exotic eye worm rapidly invades US by spreading from testes of fruit flies
The spread to bears shows the worm is gaining ground and new hosts in the US.
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Ah yes, eye worms, just what my day needed
6 0 ReplyCan we fucking not.
18 0 ReplyThat’s a headline that just gets worse with every word
71 0 ReplyI honestly did not have eye worms from fly testicles on my apocalyptic bingo.
Anyone else?
132 1 ReplyI'm not sure. For some reason I'm having trouble seeing my bingo card
68 0 ReplyBuzz buzz
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59 1 ReplyWell, that was horrifying.
13 1 ReplyThe spread to bears shows the worm is gaining ground and new hosts in the US.
Since then, it has shown up in at least 11 dogs—in New York
As it has already shown up in NY, we can only guess which wormy brained individual spread it to bears
80 1 ReplyDamn, RFK is spreading eye worms from bears and J.D. Vance is spreading drug-resistant gonorrhea by fucking couches without protection.
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14 0 ReplyLooks like cases are mostly being found on the east coast, and I luckily don't live over there. Still, ew.
8 1 ReplySure, why not?
9 0 ReplyOne more reason for me to absolutely hate fruit flies.
26 0 ReplyWho knew flies had balls?
30 0 Reply"Males have to grow these outrageously large testes and the sperm are all rolled up inside," Pitnick explains. "The testes are about 11 percent of the male's total body mass."
Damn
35 0 ReplyDamn, bros got fat nuts
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Fun fact: fruit Flys are sexed (both in the sense of determining their biological sense, and the act of fornication) by "sex combs". The forearms of the males have little "combs" (absent in females) that the males use to shove a big ol ball of sperm into the female.
You are welcome for this unasked bit of knowledge.
6 0 ReplyAnyone who paid attention in Biology class. All* animals have gamete-producing gonads.
*there's weird exceptions, like sponges.
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No! No! No!
8 0 ReplyJanice you are glowing!
Thanks! It's my new exotic eye worm.
12 1 ReplyBro
12 1 ReplyPrincess Mononoke in 3-2-1...
7 3 ReplyThat robo reader ruined the video in less than 10 seconds
7 0 ReplyAh, sorry, I searched it with the sound off!
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