![]() They can do this directly, with the help of barb-like hooks and knife-like stylets, or they can encyst on nearby aquatic vegetation and enter the host’s body by being eaten. Upon hatching, the rather cylindrical larvae enter their hosts (usually insects). ![]() Males die after mating females die after egg-laying. Sometimes these are squeezed into the water in loose, small sections, like funnel cake batter sometimes they are adhered onto a stick or other surface in a compact undulating pattern sometimes they are extruded in free-floating threadlike strands. Females deposit eggs in water in long strings, sometimes up to 8 feet long, each containing up to several million eggs. Groups of mating horsehair worms form tight knots.
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