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Birth of A Botfly Maggot: A Curious Adventure with "Doctor Bugs"

Mark Moffett · Youtube · 4 HN points · 0 HN comments

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For more tropical adventures, see Mark's "Adventures Among Ants," winner of the 2010 National Outdoor Book Award:

http://www.adventuresamongants.com

In this video, Mark W. Moffett (a.k.a. "Doctor Bugs") tells the horrifying yet humorous story of a parasitic larva called a botfly entering his hand during an expedition to Belize. The maggot took ten weeks to grow to "maturity," surviving Mark's subsequent trips to Honduras, Botswana, and Zimbabwe. It finally emerged on 2 December 2010, at the end of a meeting with the environmentalist E.O. Wilson at Harvard.

Video of maggot emergence by Paul Thomson.

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Birth of A Botfly Maggot: A Curious Adventure with "Doctor Bugs"

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Dec 16, 2010 · 4 points, 2 comments · submitted by rmah

⬐ rmah
Also a botfly in a woman's head: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNDG7WPtVO4

⬐ aristidb
This comment from Youtube is spot on... "WHY CAN'T I STOP WATCHING BOT FLY VIDEOS!?!?!"

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