The Bot Fly

[Earl]

This little beauty captures mosquitoes and attaches it's eggs to it. The popular little mozzie then lands on people and passes on the eggs, along with any number of nasty diseases and infections.

The bot fly eggs drop off the mozzie and develop under the skin. By develop I mean hatch and a nice big fat maggot starts growing under your flesh, feeding off you.

A large welt develops on the skin where the maggot is growing and feeding, when it's ready it then erupts from your flesh and fucks off, leaving a nice wound.

Trying to remove the buggers is awkward, as it has rows of serrated barbs around it's body. The common treatment is to cover the welt it's caused in vasaline. The little bastards can't breath and after a day or two they joss it and can then be pulled out without causing any infection. Apparently they start writhing about when they realise their oxygen supply has been cut off, tasty.

Here's a picture of some poor bugger with one in their eye.

Happy holidaying in Mexico.



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[Alpha]

That is rather disgusting!

[Ck]

I feel rather sick !

[Earl]

Video it.

[Earl]

Here's a video of some bloke having bot fly larvae removed from his back.

[Alpha]

Ewwwwww, no!

[Ck]

I can't even watch it

[A_B]

That's awful.

Don't forget to pack a pair of tweezers when you go to Mexico (more importantly - take some video to show us if you get any nesting inside you ).

[Earl]

What would've been really sick is if they ate the bugs as they pulled them out.

[A_B]

It's something for you to think about doing if you ever have to pull one out of someones back then.