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10 Gross YouTube Videos Thatll Make Your Skin Crawl [NSFW]
1. The Botfly in My Head
Try to watch this video and refrain from scratching your head for the rest of the day. Hey, you know what's better than one botfly? Two, naturally. Does anyone else think "The Botfly in My Head" sounds like a potential sitcom?
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Today's science lesson: Botflies reproduce by laying eggs on a host, or on other insects, like mosquitoes. When a mosquito then finds its own next victim, the body heat causes these eggs to hatch, and the botfly larvae burrow under the skin of the new host. A larva will feed on the host as it grows, before bursting from the body to complete its pupal stage in the soil. And some species of botfly regularly choose a human body for a starter home.
If this fact of life isn't gross enough, maybe you'd like to watch a botfly as it's extracted from a woman's scalp. Or maybe a few glimpses of massive cysts or oozing abscesses are more up your alley.
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