Longest worm I’ve ever seen 

I am a simple man. I see a big worm, I make a video of it. Here's a link to the email list. I send out an email when I upload to the main channel: www.smartereveryday.com/email-list

The real question is: Is it magnetic?

It's a parasitic horse hair worm that feeds on crickets and frogs and such. They're attracted to water and they lay their eggs when it rains

"Are you a worm? What are you?" Was gutted when that didn't work.

I like how he started to touch it with his hands… Then alarm bells went off in his head and said “hold up sir we are smarter than this. We don’t know what it is… let’s use our tools.”

This is the raw, unedited stuff I love sometimes

That's a snake that's taken dieting too seriously.

I believe that is a horse hair worm which is an endoparasite. It takes over its host. Which is usually a grasshopper/preying mantis or another insect of that sort. It will live there and grow until it is ready to emerge. At that point it will cause its host to jump into water and drown itself. The worm is fairly reliant on being in or around water and can't live long without it.

A quick google search shows that those might have been horsehair worms, which are absolutely terrifying and amazing at the same time!

It's stitching from the supersonic baseballs that's still twirling from the impact

I think that may be a parasite. Ground worms don’t typically grow that long.

Long stringy worm sounds internal parasite alarms to me: if they live by absorbing nutrients from their host through their skin, they need to grow in length rather than diameter, in order to maintain their surface/volume ratio and absorption capabilities. Better not touch until identified and confirmed harmless to you. That said - massive thanks for sharing all the little things that tickle your attention and curiosity.

Destin, please never change! You're child-like awe and curiosity of the world around you is something I also have, and I admire a lot about you!

Main channel: Lets go to the arctic or the gulf coast and engage with the best the US military has to offer Second channel: big worm

That's one of those things you find bursting out of the chests of grass hoppers and spiders, it's an awful parasite!

Either horse-hair, parasitic worm (nematomorpha) or maybe the rare predatory Haplotaxis gordioides.

my grandma called them Horsehair worms.

Biology student here: In Germany i heared them being refered to as "wire worms". They are found in small streams and in marshlands. There are differnt species, which are not closer related. I know of the genus "mermis" and "gordios". They are parasites. There are plenty of differnt species with differnt host and intermediate host and alternate hosts. Most known are they in Grasshoppers/Crickets and praying mantis. There are some videos on youtube you should check out.

Very nice update!! 👌

Worms like this creep me out to my core. Parasites are my greatest fear, especially after learning tapeworms can hatch in any part of your body, including your brain, and live there for ages.

Could be a horsehair worm, its a parasite. Odd to see them in the rain instead of standing water.

I can't be the only one who thought he was about to cut it up

We call that chow here, in every restaurant

First magnetic worms, now long worms? We need Smarter Everyday: Worms channel. Hope you’re enjoying your day Destin

This is the content I sub to this channel for. Thank you Destin.

Looks like a horsehair worm. So cool!!

I am a simple man. I see Destin upload a big worm, I click it.

horsehair worm. a parasite that is best known from the viral video some odd years ago, where someone sprays a spider and one of that crawls out of it.

Tape worm? It must be some type of parasite.

I saw longer worms as a kid while living in west Africa but the were big around as a pencil.

I have never saw a Earthworm look like that, But I live in Canada I am sure you will do a follow up video or at least I am hoping you do, love your videos

Michael Scott: That's what she said

Horsehair worm - I had the exact same reaction the first time I saw one!

Definitely looks pretty big next to your Size 9 sneaker

Ascaris is my guess. Walking by a field with livestock?

"I don't know what to say. It's really neat. Bye." Such a good ending.

Thanks for sharing your worms with us

"Worms from Space" They have come to see who sent that probe to their planet.

We have giant earthworms that get over a foot long here in Australia

I love your long form videos but these short ones when we get to see that initial moment of curiosity and wonder are super fun!

Let it be known that this is NOT the only video published on this channel about worms Destin funds in his yard.

Alien confirmed

So, you saw a really long worm. You didn't know worms could get that long. Some comments indicate it is a horsehair worm. Now you know. Now you're smarter. Happens every day.

In New Zealand we have an earthworm that is about a meter long and a centimeter thick.

what happens if you shoot a horsehair worm with a mach-1 baseball cannon?

I like that Destin didn't touch it directly, just in case.

That’s not an earth worm it looks like those parasitic things that grow in some insects and emerge when the insect gets wet

Eat it, then report back.

Thank you for letting it live.

Thats a horsehair worm.

I’ve seen THOUSANDS of these out on the road after a rain storm in NW MS. Only witnessed it one time as far as I can remember

Looks like the parasite common to praying mantises

That looks more like a parasite to me... but that doesn't explain its size... maybe its host body just died off somewhere and now it's just crawling around?

"It's really neat, bye" I'm not sure there is a more concise statement. LOL

if there's _one_ thing i know about big worms: playing with their money, is like playing with their emotions

Ok, Destin can do rockets, submarines, cannons, auto-rotating helicopters, but he doesn’t do worms. Got it.

I think that's a horsehair worm

It is said that the hairs from horses tails come to life when it rains... so said my grandmother.

Was going to touch it, and backed out for the knife lol. Good move.

That Sir, is the longest worm I have ever seen

Its a pigtail cricket assassin thatcher mega-leech; very rare. Cut it in half and you will have 2. Lives 36 months tops. Hibernates in summer in trees. Glows in the dark. Fully magnetic to fish; great fish bait. Breaths air and water.

Step 1 of the scientific method: Ask the specimen, "What are you???"

I dug up an earthworm longer than a shovel while trenching once. The soil was incredibly rich, ended up putting great crops of veges in there.

Don’t touch it! That’s how scary movies start! You get some weird parasites and then you become a vampire or a werewolf… wait! Go pick it up! Go now!

This could be great as a youtube short

Bro that’s a baby snake when it’s that long!

-"I'm glad he didn't kill the worm" -"Hmm...me too."

this it the top tier worm content i've come to expect from you, Destin. Keep it up.

I like how this is two seconds longer than a RU-vid short.

If I wanted to be smarter. I would find out what kind of worm that was.

looks like Spinochordodes tellinii, or a hairworm. They live and reproduce in water, where their microscopic larvae are ingested by grasshoppers. The larvae grow inside the grasshopper, where they mildly influence its behavior to seek out bodies of water to jump into to drown, at which point the hairworm leaves the host body to repeat the cycle. Could be wrong, but they can get pretty big, thin, and somewhat yellow-white in color.

I love your natural curiosity 🙌

Thank you for the frequent worm videos!

That looks more like a parasitic worm than a normal worm.

Worm 👍

weirdnesses like this lead to getting lost in "rabbit holes", good for learning !!

One of those ‘whoa’ moments.

It looks like a parasitic worm, the kind that lives in insects.

Imagine if that thing answers back.

It looks like a well-digger (Haplotaxis gordioides) or a horsehair worm- most likely the latter in your area.

Jeez that's a long worm

its a parasite dont touch it

that's a shoelace bro

I'm getting slight parasite vibes from that worm

You should call yourself Worms America 😆😆😆

Usually in entomology world or alike you specify location, time of the year, altitude… so others can help identify. Cool

You should have tested if they were magnetic!

But the question is, is it magnetic?

Destin I love you for this

If you get to a cold-ish sea shore at some point see if you can find some bootlace worms. The world's longest venomous animal! Get in touch if you want more info! Greetings from North Wales!

More worm videos please! The magnetic worm video was great too!

Alien for sure. You better hope it didn't follow you home.

I literally screamed at my phone horse hair worm noooooo!! when you went to touch it lmao!

that's a freakin' tapeworm!

I vote for a nematode, non segmented round worm. I remember my professor saying they are so common that if everything in the earth were to be invisible except nematodes you would still be able to see a earth sized ball.

it's no solid rule (tapeworms obviously) but very generally, a worm without "segments" or "ribs" is often a parasite :) at least of all the worms the leyman might come across on a walkway like this it's a handy thing to bear in mind

Cool. I've never seen one of those. Definitely don't want to see one of them in my underpants either.

I grew up 1 mile south of memphis in MS and when itd rain these things would cover our black top driveway. When it stops raining the birds would cover our yard eating them. I just thought eveyone around here had em.

I love your fascination with the world around you. I'd totally watch a follow-up video that would make me smarter that day about super long worms!

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