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

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Uploaded by on Dec 11, 2010

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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  • I funken hate the way this guy talks!!

  • "didn't want to kill it"

    ......ARE YOU QUITE MAD SIR!!?? :o

    I would burn that thing and scatter the ashes.

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  • fucking weirdo

  • Haha, this is so disgusting haha.. lol

  • Kill it? I would commit genicide on the whole race of bot fly + wipe them out for good if i could!

  • I like you...

  • @SamuraiPirate88

    haha you said exactly what i was going to say

  • @davidsolis22 I funken love the way this guy talks!!

  • @MrBrendoProductions he's not a retard he's gay

  • I would STOMP THAT THING RELENTLESSLY WITH A HAMMER

  • What a fucking wack job

  • WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT

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