What a mysterious “ᴍᴏɴsᴛᴇʀ” – dissecting this super mysterious creature hiding in this underwater wooden trunk. Looking at this picture, we all must be ᴘᴀɴɪᴄᴋɪɴɢ. I bet 10 people look at it, 11 people have to say, “Omg, what’s this?” Many people will wonder what strange creature resides in the trunk so that when it is removed, it “shows” such a hideous. Yes, the answer is the wood chisel (scientific name: Teredo Navalis) which is the mechanism! Teredo navalis is a wood-chiseled mollusk – a super-mysterious ᴍᴏɴsᴛᴇʀ and a wanderer around the world.
Native to the Northeast Atlantic, they have crept and traveled to many parts of the globe. Many people assume that they are passengers who smuggle tickets – hiding in the hull of the ship and then traveling the world for centuries. The reason they set foot and reside in so many places is that Teredo navalis has extremely good adaptability – can live in tropical warm water; in the cold North Sea or Mediterranean salt water as well as brackish water of the Baltic Sea.
Despite its worm-like appearance, this creature belongs to the shell of a two-piece ᴍᴏʟᴇ (ha layer). Teredo Navalis’ body is largely small, about 2cm long, opaque white; but there are individuals up to 60 cm long and a body diameter of up to 1cm and more. Some individuals are covered with a light brown layer with a rough ridge, so it is easy to “invisible” in the habitat. The most special feature in Teredo is the head – almost round, there are 2 curved pieces that protrude and are made of hard lime, rough face to cut wood, between 2 curved lime pieces is a round and flat mouth.
At the tail end, there are two tubes and these two tubes can stick out indents. The tube is large on the outside, the baby tube on the outside is small, the tube is large to draw water and the creatures are in the water, the small pipe discharges the feces so they also call these two tubes two font poker tubes. On the outside of the two poker tubes were two lime armor. Teredo is not wrong to say teredo is a hated troublemaker when they enter wood from a young age, leaving only a hole as small as a pinhead. From this hole, they will take advantage of their two font tubes to connect life in the wooden body and the external environment.
During growth and development, wood shapes always secrete a wood softener, a lime-like fluid that when dried ends around the cloudy burrow of the ha are white. It is this layer of lime that protects them from the infestation of seawater. And then you know, the more wood-gnawing the head, the longer the body gets there. Each individual chisels a separate cave in the wood, but the opaque burrows of this individual do not penetrate the other wooden cave, when the wood is no longer there, the ha also runs out of food and d.i.es there.
What a mysterious “ᴍᴏɴsᴛᴇʀ” – dissecting this super mysterious creature hiding in this underwater wooden trunk. Looking at this picture, we all must be ᴘᴀɴɪᴄᴋɪɴɢ. I bet 10 people look at it, 11 people have to say, “Omg, what’s this?” Many people will wonder what strange creature resides in the trunk so that when it is removed, it “shows” such a hideous. Yes, the answer is the wood chisel (scientific name: Teredo Navalis) which is the mechanism! Teredo navalis is a wood-chiseled mollusk – a super-mysterious ᴍᴏɴsᴛᴇʀ and a wanderer around the world.
Native to the Northeast Atlantic, they have crept and traveled to many parts of the globe. Many people assume that they are passengers who smuggle tickets – hiding in the hull of the ship and then traveling the world for centuries. The reason they set foot and reside in so many places is that Teredo navalis has extremely good adaptability – can live in tropical warm water; in the cold North Sea or Mediterranean salt water as well as brackish water of the Baltic Sea.
Despite its worm-like appearance, this creature belongs to the shell of a two-piece ᴍᴏʟᴇ (ha layer). Teredo Navalis’ body is largely small, about 2cm long, opaque white; but there are individuals up to 60 cm long and a body diameter of up to 1cm and more. Some individuals are covered with a light brown layer with a rough ridge, so it is easy to “invisible” in the habitat. The most special feature in Teredo is the head – almost round, there are 2 curved pieces that protrude and are made of hard lime, rough face to cut wood, between 2 curved lime pieces is a round and flat mouth.
At the tail end, there are two tubes and these two tubes can stick out indents. The tube is large on the outside, the baby tube on the outside is small, the tube is large to draw water and the creatures are in the water, the small pipe discharges the feces so they also call these two tubes two font poker tubes. On the outside of the two poker tubes were two lime armor. Teredo is not wrong to say teredo is a hated troublemaker when they enter wood from a young age, leaving only a hole as small as a pinhead. From this hole, they will take advantage of their two font tubes to connect life in the wooden body and the external environment.
During growth and development, wood shapes always secrete a wood softener, a lime-like fluid that when dried ends around the cloudy burrow of the ha are white. It is this layer of lime that protects them from the infestation of seawater. And then you know, the more wood-gnawing the head, the longer the body gets there. Each individual chisels a separate cave in the wood, but the opaque burrows of this individual do not penetrate the other wooden cave, when the wood is no longer there, the ha also runs out of food and d.i.es there.
What a mysterious “ᴍᴏɴsᴛᴇʀ” – dissecting this super mysterious creature hiding in this underwater wooden trunk. Looking at this picture, we all must be ᴘᴀɴɪᴄᴋɪɴɢ. I bet 10 people look at it, 11 people have to say, “Omg, what’s this?” Many people will wonder what strange creature resides in the trunk so that when it is removed, it “shows” such a hideous. Yes, the answer is the wood chisel (scientific name: Teredo Navalis) which is the mechanism! Teredo navalis is a wood-chiseled mollusk – a super-mysterious ᴍᴏɴsᴛᴇʀ and a wanderer around the world.
Native to the Northeast Atlantic, they have crept and traveled to many parts of the globe. Many people assume that they are passengers who smuggle tickets – hiding in the hull of the ship and then traveling the world for centuries. The reason they set foot and reside in so many places is that Teredo navalis has extremely good adaptability – can live in tropical warm water; in the cold North Sea or Mediterranean salt water as well as brackish water of the Baltic Sea.
Despite its worm-like appearance, this creature belongs to the shell of a two-piece ᴍᴏʟᴇ (ha layer). Teredo Navalis’ body is largely small, about 2cm long, opaque white; but there are individuals up to 60 cm long and a body diameter of up to 1cm and more. Some individuals are covered with a light brown layer with a rough ridge, so it is easy to “invisible” in the habitat. The most special feature in Teredo is the head – almost round, there are 2 curved pieces that protrude and are made of hard lime, rough face to cut wood, between 2 curved lime pieces is a round and flat mouth.
At the tail end, there are two tubes and these two tubes can stick out indents. The tube is large on the outside, the baby tube on the outside is small, the tube is large to draw water and the creatures are in the water, the small pipe discharges the feces so they also call these two tubes two font poker tubes. On the outside of the two poker tubes were two lime armor. Teredo is not wrong to say teredo is a hated troublemaker when they enter wood from a young age, leaving only a hole as small as a pinhead. From this hole, they will take advantage of their two font tubes to connect life in the wooden body and the external environment.
During growth and development, wood shapes always secrete a wood softener, a lime-like fluid that when dried ends around the cloudy burrow of the ha are white. It is this layer of lime that protects them from the infestation of seawater. And then you know, the more wood-gnawing the head, the longer the body gets there. Each individual chisels a separate cave in the wood, but the opaque burrows of this individual do not penetrate the other wooden cave, when the wood is no longer there, the ha also runs out of food and d.i.es there.
What a mysterious “ᴍᴏɴsᴛᴇʀ” – dissecting this super mysterious creature hiding in this underwater wooden trunk. Looking at this picture, we all must be ᴘᴀɴɪᴄᴋɪɴɢ. I bet 10 people look at it, 11 people have to say, “Omg, what’s this?” Many people will wonder what strange creature resides in the trunk so that when it is removed, it “shows” such a hideous. Yes, the answer is the wood chisel (scientific name: Teredo Navalis) which is the mechanism! Teredo navalis is a wood-chiseled mollusk – a super-mysterious ᴍᴏɴsᴛᴇʀ and a wanderer around the world.
Native to the Northeast Atlantic, they have crept and traveled to many parts of the globe. Many people assume that they are passengers who smuggle tickets – hiding in the hull of the ship and then traveling the world for centuries. The reason they set foot and reside in so many places is that Teredo navalis has extremely good adaptability – can live in tropical warm water; in the cold North Sea or Mediterranean salt water as well as brackish water of the Baltic Sea.
Despite its worm-like appearance, this creature belongs to the shell of a two-piece ᴍᴏʟᴇ (ha layer). Teredo Navalis’ body is largely small, about 2cm long, opaque white; but there are individuals up to 60 cm long and a body diameter of up to 1cm and more. Some individuals are covered with a light brown layer with a rough ridge, so it is easy to “invisible” in the habitat. The most special feature in Teredo is the head – almost round, there are 2 curved pieces that protrude and are made of hard lime, rough face to cut wood, between 2 curved lime pieces is a round and flat mouth.
At the tail end, there are two tubes and these two tubes can stick out indents. The tube is large on the outside, the baby tube on the outside is small, the tube is large to draw water and the creatures are in the water, the small pipe discharges the feces so they also call these two tubes two font poker tubes. On the outside of the two poker tubes were two lime armor. Teredo is not wrong to say teredo is a hated troublemaker when they enter wood from a young age, leaving only a hole as small as a pinhead. From this hole, they will take advantage of their two font tubes to connect life in the wooden body and the external environment.
During growth and development, wood shapes always secrete a wood softener, a lime-like fluid that when dried ends around the cloudy burrow of the ha are white. It is this layer of lime that protects them from the infestation of seawater. And then you know, the more wood-gnawing the head, the longer the body gets there. Each individual chisels a separate cave in the wood, but the opaque burrows of this individual do not penetrate the other wooden cave, when the wood is no longer there, the ha also runs out of food and d.i.es there.
It is known that wood chisels are hermaphrodite species, going through the male and female periods respectively. The males will release sᴘᴇʀᴍ into the sea, the female will swim to the areas where the sᴘᴇʀᴍ is and do its job when sucking sᴘᴇʀᴍ into the body through the poker tube. Here, the eggs will be fᴇʀᴛɪʟɪᴢᴇᴅ and wait for “shipment”. Can you believe it, teredo will produce 5,000 to 1 million eggs! Their eggs float in seawater and cling to wooden sides and wooden boats and grow. For fishermen who own wooden boats, Teredo is a pest capable of ᴅᴇᴠᴀsᴛᴀᴛɪɴɢ.
Some documents note that in the Baltic Sea, teredo individuals can turn a normally submerged tree into “rotting” with countless tunnels in 16 weeks. The period of time for an oak tree with a body diameter of 30cm to deform is within 32 weeks, and almost completely disappears within a year. That’s enough to know how destructive teredo individuals are. However, many people believe that, due to living in the trunk, Teredo has a fairly high nutritional value. And it is prepared by many locals such as Thailand and is considered a specialty.
It is known that wood chisels are hermaphrodite species, going through the male and female periods respectively. The males will release sᴘᴇʀᴍ into the sea, the female will swim to the areas where the sᴘᴇʀᴍ is and do its job when sucking sᴘᴇʀᴍ into the body through the poker tube. Here, the eggs will be fᴇʀᴛɪʟɪᴢᴇᴅ and wait for “shipment”. Can you believe it, teredo will produce 5,000 to 1 million eggs! Their eggs float in seawater and cling to wooden sides and wooden boats and grow. For fishermen who own wooden boats, Teredo is a pest capable of ᴅᴇᴠᴀsᴛᴀᴛɪɴɢ.
Some documents note that in the Baltic Sea, teredo individuals can turn a normally submerged tree into “rotting” with countless tunnels in 16 weeks. The period of time for an oak tree with a body diameter of 30cm to deform is within 32 weeks, and almost completely disappears within a year. That’s enough to know how destructive teredo individuals are. However, many people believe that, due to living in the trunk, Teredo has a fairly high nutritional value. And it is prepared by many locals such as Thailand and is considered a specialty.
It is known that wood chisels are hermaphrodite species, going through the male and female periods respectively. The males will release sᴘᴇʀᴍ into the sea, the female will swim to the areas where the sᴘᴇʀᴍ is and do its job when sucking sᴘᴇʀᴍ into the body through the poker tube. Here, the eggs will be fᴇʀᴛɪʟɪᴢᴇᴅ and wait for “shipment”. Can you believe it, teredo will produce 5,000 to 1 million eggs! Their eggs float in seawater and cling to wooden sides and wooden boats and grow. For fishermen who own wooden boats, Teredo is a pest capable of ᴅᴇᴠᴀsᴛᴀᴛɪɴɢ.
Some documents note that in the Baltic Sea, teredo individuals can turn a normally submerged tree into “rotting” with countless tunnels in 16 weeks. The period of time for an oak tree with a body diameter of 30cm to deform is within 32 weeks, and almost completely disappears within a year. That’s enough to know how destructive teredo individuals are. However, many people believe that, due to living in the trunk, Teredo has a fairly high nutritional value. And it is prepared by many locals such as Thailand and is considered a specialty.
It is known that wood chisels are hermaphrodite species, going through the male and female periods respectively. The males will release sᴘᴇʀᴍ into the sea, the female will swim to the areas where the sᴘᴇʀᴍ is and do its job when sucking sᴘᴇʀᴍ into the body through the poker tube. Here, the eggs will be fᴇʀᴛɪʟɪᴢᴇᴅ and wait for “shipment”. Can you believe it, teredo will produce 5,000 to 1 million eggs! Their eggs float in seawater and cling to wooden sides and wooden boats and grow. For fishermen who own wooden boats, Teredo is a pest capable of ᴅᴇᴠᴀsᴛᴀᴛɪɴɢ.
Some documents note that in the Baltic Sea, teredo individuals can turn a normally submerged tree into “rotting” with countless tunnels in 16 weeks. The period of time for an oak tree with a body diameter of 30cm to deform is within 32 weeks, and almost completely disappears within a year. That’s enough to know how destructive teredo individuals are. However, many people believe that, due to living in the trunk, Teredo has a fairly high nutritional value. And it is prepared by many locals such as Thailand and is considered a specialty.
