Parasitic worm erupts from a spider's body

Now a new video showing a giant parasitic worm bursting from the body of a huge Australian arachnid may push arachnophobes over the edge.

The disgusting spectacle was filmed by YouTube member BaskWith2 in Australia, who was shocked to see the writhing worm after spraying the spider with insecticide.

His video seems to show a giant parasitic nematode, or roundworm, erupting from the dead spider’s body in a spiral shape, before unfurling to look like a strand of wriggling wholemeal spaghetti.

It appears to be over 15 times longer than the spider’s body and around the same size as the arachnid’s abdomen.

Once the parasite is wriggling in a foamy sea of insecticide, the disgusted cameraman blasts it with more poison, as the video cuts out.

BaskWith2 writes on his YouTube page : ‘Ok so I was just editing my latest montage and this huge spider came out, so I sprayed it and killed it, then this f*****n alien worm came out of it!’

Comments include: 'Just what in the sweet, holy, blessed reaches of sacred heaven is this???!! ' and 'Kill it with fire'.

There is some conjecture as to exactly what the parasite is.

(dailymail.co.uk)