The mantis iron worm can infect humans.

Gordiacea Von Stebold, 1843) is also known as hairsnake, also known as hairworm or gordianworm, and its local name is copper snake or tencel. .

Ironworms are found in tropical and temperate zones and live freely in water. They can occasionally infect humans and parasitize in the digestive tract. The adults are thread-shaped and dioecious. The female lays eggs near the water, using insects such as grasshoppers, cockroaches and beetles as intermediate hosts.

The adults live in rivers, ponds and ditches. The eggs laid by the female hatch out into larvae in the water. After being eaten by insects or humans, they live a parasitic life. When this insect is swallowed by large arthropods such as mantises and locusts, the larvae continue to develop in the bodies of these arthropods and will gradually control the host's behavior. When the larvae grow into adults, they will control the host to find water sources, drown the host, and then escape from the host's body. Drill out.