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This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This'll just take a minute.

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Why did the tiny nematode worm cross the road?

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Well, for all the usual reasons.

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But a more interesting question is "how did it make the crossing?"

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Turns out, it may have hitched a ride, inside a slug, or other invertebrate.

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That's according to a study in the journal BMC Ecology.

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Nematodes are about a millimeter long.

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They're often found on decomposing fruits or rotting plants, where they feast on the resident bacteria.

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But when that food source is exhausted, how do these diminutive diners make their way to their next meal, which could be in a mulch pile a major trek of several yards away?

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To find out, researchers hit the compost heap, and they collected some 600 slugs and 400 centipedes, spiders, beetles, flies and locusts.

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And they found that the innards of slugs, centipedes and woodlice are littered with live worms that the larger creepy crawlies accidentally ingested as they snacked.

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But what becomes of these itinerant intestinal interlopers?

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To solve that mystery, the researchers exposed 79 slugs to more than a million nematodes that had been tagged with a fluorescent marker.

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And they saw that the worms not only survive a southbound trip through a slug's guts, they emerge none the worse for where-they've-been when their ride takes a bathroom break.

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Sure, a chugging slug isn't exactly high-speed rail.

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But its bacteria-filled belly means that, for the nematode passengers, the dining car is always open.

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Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin.

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