I’m going to stay away from Mary for a while. It was a busy weekend for both of us, we’re both really tired, and then she sends me this as an appropriate organism. I’m trying to read the message in sending a picture of a botfly to your spouse.
Don’t panic, here’s the cure: bacon.
Woh, you changed the top image on your blog! No more Beard-Cthulu.
Incidentally, I hate bacon. Hate the smell of it, hate the taste of it, ugh. I’ve never liked greasy foods for breakfast aside from cold pizza, which is delicious.
Beard-cthulhu remains, just like croco-duck. Pharyngula simply has several top banners that get (randomly?) selected every time a page is (re-)loaded.
Also love cold pizza any time of day. Fresh pizza with lots of red-sauce just kinda icks me out almost as much as the botfly; just too much hot slimy tomato without pasta or corned-beef+cabbage.
Man am I glad to be vegetarian right now.
I took an Insect Biology class from an instructor who spent a lot of time collecting in South America. He said you aren’t a serious Entomologist until you’ve had a bot fly. /shudder
Autobotfly or Decepticon botfly?
*ducks*
My sister was doing aid work down in Panama earlier this year. She said she treated a couple of cases of botfly infestation, which according to her was completely gross but 1000 times better than treating someone with cholera.
The headline ‘long pig’ was rather disturbing, in Melanesia it can mean ‘human flesh’, I was relieved to read that the cure for botfly infestation is just boring old bacon.
Is there somewhere that “long pig” doesn’t refer to human flesh?
The cure is bacon. But think about what is being cured…
She was so … perky!
Loved that video, I’m going to watch some more.
NPR had a story earlier this spring about a biology
NPR had a story earlier this year about a biology s
at 10,
Okay that’s enough suspense…
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Two really excellent postings about Dermatobia from Piotr Naskrecki:
Puppy-killing scientist smuggles rainforest babies in body cavity
Dermatobia Redux with video!
Wow, that is gross. Bacon, yech!
Adult botflies are really cute.
…aaand another Youtube channel to subscribe (go to Youtube to see HD versions: http://www.youtube.com/user/grossscienceshow/)
Oh my sweet fucking lord, what is that? A Botfly larvae? Aren’t they the little fuckers who grow under your skin? You know, the ones that, all on their own, are fairly good evidence against the existence of a benevolent God?
*note to self: watch video before commenting*
Ah, bacon. Cures hangovers, cures botfly infestation… has anyone looked into the possibility of it curing cancer? Worth a go, surely?