"This mesmerizing, wiggling worm is the back end of a live tapeworm hanging out of the intestine of a bird. Tapeworms don’t eat the food in the intestine. Adult tapeworms do not have mouths and absorb nutrients through their body surface as it passes by in the intestine." - Anna Phillips, Curator of the U.S. National Parasite Collection Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History #ParasiteWeek2021 | Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History