Since we’re in the gross-out theme, here’s some people pulling botfly larvae out of a guy’s back. (The botfly matures inside living flesh and then hatches out.) Warning: pretty nasty, also some PG-13 swearing upon removing the larvae.
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That was freaking awesome.
Where would that person have gone that he would have gotten botflys? It had to hurt having that bug pulled out of his back. If it were me I would have been using rated- R swear words.
My roommate does field work in Peru and he routinely comes back with botflies. I’m not a fan.
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