NEW YORK POST - Now-viral footage captured the retch-worthy moment that seemingly thousands of “white worms rained down from the sky” in India like some kind of bizarro biblical plague.
In the alarming clip — filmed Tuesday in Bihar, an East India state bordering Nepal — the creepy-crawlies can be seen hailing down until the road is carpeted with a “thick layer” of the unidentified critters, according to Reuters.
The footage amassed millions of views before plant experts pointed out that the so-called “wormy raindrops” were more likely “catkins” from a species of poplar tree that grows in the region.
Catkins “resemble caterpillars, and that is how they are often described, or as squiggly, worm-like structures,” said Claire Thomas Federici, a botanist with the University of California, Riverside.
“Thus, you can see how the untrained eye would refer to these as worms.”