The wireworm has an elongated, horsehair-shaped body that can be up to 1 meter long. Adults live freely in seawater or freshwater, and larvae parasitize arthropods (such as praying mantises). Adult wireworms inhabit rivers, ponds and ditches. Eggs laid by females hatch into larvae inside the water, which are eaten by insects and live as parasites. When this insect is swallowed by large arthropods such as praying mantis, locusts, etc., the larvae continue to develop in these arthropods until they mature and leave the host to live freely in the water and mate and lay eggs. At the end of summer in August and September, we can easily find drowned praying mantis at the edge of the pond, which is exactly the work of the wireworm. When the wireworm in the mantis' abdomen matures, it has to go back to the water to finish the task of laying its eggs, and at this time, the wireworm will drive the praying mantis to look for a water source and drowned in the water, so that it can have a chance to enter into the water, and if the praying mantis fails to find the pond or the pool in time, the wireworm will still burrow, but the end will be a dry death on the land. and the praying mantis will die of an abdominal injury. Pond water should not be drunk freely. Praying mantis usually feed on insects in the water or near the water, and live mainly in the area near the water source. When the wireworm lays its eggs near the water source, it is easy for the praying mantis to accidentally eat them when it is moving around.

Can wireworms invade the human body? Many people have seen the movie "Invasion of the Wireworms", which is a bit of an in-depth view. First of all, things like this do happen. It's not an invasion though, just an infection. In nature, wireworms are quite common, but getting into the human body and causing wireworm disease is a rare thing. Although it has happened, the probability of an invasion of the human body by wireworms is extremely small, and at one point only 18 cases of the condition were reported in the country over a 12-year period. But it actually can. The wireworm can parasitize the human body. Found in the tropics and temperate zones, wireworms live freely in water and can occasionally infect the human body by parasitizing the digestive or urinary tract. Adult wireworms are thread-like and dioecious, with females laying eggs at the water's edge, which hatch into larvae in the water that can live parasitically in the intestines after being eaten by humans