![]() ![]() They usually peak during the late summer as well as during the fall months. Horsehair worms are typically dark brown in color, but some are tan, yellow or black. The horsehair worm looks like the thin hair of a horsetail. This unique worm earned the name based on the way it looks. ![]() The horsehair worm belongs to the roundworm family. If you have observed the horsehair worm emerging from the body of a larger animal or anything other than an insect, it was probably inside of the cricket, cockroach or beetle that was just ingested by the larger animal. These odd threadlike or hair-like creatures can grow up to 3.2 feet (one meter) and only 0.03 inches (3 millimeters) in diameter. Also called Cabbagehair, Gordiacea, Gordiid, and Gordian Worm, the horsehair worm is a parasite that lives inside crickets, cockroaches, grasshoppers, beetles, and other anthropod pests. ![]() What’s so unusual about them (well at least one unusual thing about them) is where they prefer to live. Nematomorpha (Hairworm), better known as the “horsehair worm,” is one of the most unusual parasitic worms on earth today. ![]()
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