#cochliomyia

[solvoros]

I think we should stop calling maggots and flies ugly because just look

Tfym this little guy is ugly

[macmanx]

A war has been raging for decades in the jungles of Panama, as we fight one of the most terrifying parasites on Earth. It is so relentless that our best defense is to drop 100 million radiation-blasted, flesh-eating flies from the sky – every week.

[wordsalso]

POV you entered a JRPG battle with a cow

[faguscarolinensis]

Cochliomyia macellaria on Fatsia japonica / Secondary Screwworm Fly on Japanese Aralia at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University in Durham, NC

[wormslurry]

Lately, I have been looking up information on the primary screwworm (Cochliomyia hominivorax) so I can create monsters with similar habits (in my mind). The fact that these horrifying little fellas exist gives me inspiration for all sorts of fictional beasts. Their species name even translates to man-eating. While I do love these real world Rot Grubs, I would never want to have an encounter with them in the wild.

[theladygoogle]

LONDON, July 17 (Reuters) - A British woman returned from a holiday in Peru hearing scratching noises inside her head to be told she was being attacked by flesh-eating maggots living inside her ear.

Rochelle Harris, 27, said she remembered dislodging a fly from her ear while in Peru but thought nothing more of it until she started getting headaches and pains down one side of her face and woke up in Britain one morning with liquid on her pillow.

Thinking she had a routine ear infection caused by a mosquito bite, she sought medical treatment at the Royal Derby Hospital in northern England, where a consultant noticed maggots in a small hole in her ear-canal.

"I was very scared. Were they in my brain?" said Harris, recounting her ordeal in a new Discovery Channel documentary series called "Bugs, Bites and Parasites" to be aired in the UK from July 21.

Doctors tried first to flush the maggots out of the ear using olive oil.

"It was the longest few hours that I have ever had to wait... I could still feel them and hear them and knowing what those scratching sounds were, and knowing what that wriggling feeling was, that just made it all the worse," she said.

When flushing the maggots out failed, the medics resorted to surgery and found a "writhing mass of maggots" within her ear, raising concern they could eat into her brain.

The surgery removed a family of eight maggots. Analysis found that a New World Army Screw Worm fly had laid eggs inside Harris's ear.

"I'm not so squeamish around those kinds of bugs now. How can I be? They've been in my ear!" Harris said.

[neioliver]

# mosca #varejeira. A vemos com frequência em nossas mesas, e muitas vezes nem imaginamos o dano que ela pode causar aos seres humanos. De fato, ela pode até matar! A mosca varejeira faz parte de uma família de moscas do tipo “metálico”, se apresentando geralmente nas cores azul ou verde, chamada califorídeas, sendo a espécie principal a #Cochliomyia #hominivorax. Suas principais vítimas são os animais de sangue quente, que ela utiliza como #hospedeiro para cuidar de sua prole. O lance é muito simples, ela senta em qualquer ferida aberta e ali deposita seus ovinhos. Quando as “criancinhas” nascem elas vão comendo seu tecido, #cartilagens e até mesmo ossos. Este processo leva em entre 12 e 24 horas. Este tipo de #infecção é chamada de miase, que se apresentam em dois tipos básicos> a cutâneo-traumática (na pele) e a #nasofaringeana (no nariz), sendo que esta segunda pode ser fatal. (em Jardins Oliver's)