Nightmare Fuel: Kill a Praying Mantis to Release a Demonic Serpent
Well, I guess I’ll be sleeping with the lights on tonight. You should too. Watch this.
At first, I thought, “awwww, poor praying mantis,” but then I was reminded of the soldiers in Aliens begging to be killed after implantation.
I think this parasite that emerges from the Praying Mantis is called a Nematode. Specifically a Mermithidae Nematode.