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

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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  Pets & Animals

[hillehai]

Shit! This guy is fucking nuts and disgusting.

[therhythmslave1]

Dr. Nuts :)))

[Tclance113]

Weirdo he's def likes raping lil boys

[Lewis Garcia]

How did I end up here from searching Asian guy prank calls restaurant?

[EyePodX]

No need to bash others beliefs.

[deadlyArachnid]

such an annoying voice

[thesenutsify]

You must be an awesome teacher ! But i got kicked out simply cause i was a teenager

[jenhardwick81]

I live in Nova Scotia and my cat had a dead botfly in head neck (yuck). I am currious what type of "bug" could have caused this in my greographic location?

[GalacticMiners]

I'm

So glad these guys don't live in Scotland! Laugh out loud!

[Philip McRevice]

That thing was shitting in ur hand. And why do you talk like that. You sound sinister.

[Gabba Gandalf]

wait wat

[cassiesmum]

The bot fly probably did a runner out of this guys hand because he annoyed the shit out of it and it had started experiencing panic attacks and suicial thoughts!!