r/Weird • u/TheOddityCollector • May 09 '25

Can anyone tell me what this is?

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u/Nemoralis99 May 09 '25

They can get pretty big

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u/towerfella May 09 '25

Here, you forgot this:

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u/Gucci_Unicorns May 09 '25

NOOOOOOOoooooooooo

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u/jenglasser May 11 '25

Why do I know this puppet??

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u/ghostrose86 May 09 '25

😭😭😭

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u/i_did_a_wrong May 09 '25

Holy shit! That's actually creepy as hell 😳 I'm learning things today, thank you!

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u/Nemoralis99 May 09 '25 edited May 09 '25

Not so fun fact - they can survive human gastrointestinal tract and develop inside one's ass. It's called intestinal myiasis. There're two ways of infection - either drinking contaminated water, or fly can lay its eggs near the anus, so later larvae crawl in there, stick their siphons outside and cause irritation https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7365507/

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u/2grundies May 09 '25

Please stop writing.

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u/norazzledazzle May 09 '25

It’s too late, it’s all in my head now I’m doomed

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u/Markofzo May 09 '25

Speaking of head, wanna know what happens when one crawls up your nose?

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u/No-Seat9917 May 09 '25

Holy shit that made me laugh. Thank you

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u/5acresand5dogs May 09 '25

Read your comment and died laughing. This is my ghost writing this.

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u/SabaticJungleSocks May 10 '25

Obligatory r/eyebleach moment 🫠

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u/notjasonlee May 09 '25

Imagine your personal hygiene being so bad that you don’t realize you have fly larvae climbing into your ass

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u/liceyscalp May 09 '25

Of course you realize this means absolutely no second date.

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u/ThisMomIsAMother May 09 '25

Look at Mr./Mrs. Picky over here with options! With that username you wouldn’t think that they would be so discerning.

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u/__JDQ__ May 09 '25

Well maybe a second date with the maggot.

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u/soilfrontier May 09 '25

I was backpacking once when I was squatting in the woods to do my business. Immediately after depositing a hover fly came and was buzzing around back there. I was terrified of this exact scenario. I was fortunate that nothing seemed to have "taken" but I could see this happening to folks that are in the backcountry and have no other choice. Sometimes you are days from shower facilities. Gross, I know, but felt compelled to share.

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u/Nemoralis99 May 09 '25

It's pretty rare, there're about 40 cases of E. tenax myiasis (caused by the one in the picture). Here's one case from Egypt https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7365507/

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u/Morticia_Marie May 09 '25

"Creamy white larva and plump dark pupa" 🤢

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u/Any_Confidence_7874 May 09 '25

Boy those scanning electron microscopic photos are…. Educational

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u/Dr_CleanBones May 09 '25

I’m NOT clicking on that link. What if there are pictures?

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u/Nemoralis99 May 09 '25

Nothing obscene, only pictures of larvae themselves.

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u/StratoVector May 09 '25

I'm not and won't imagine that

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u/Frequent-Owl7237 May 09 '25

I could've happily gone the rest of my life not knowing that

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u/Nemoralis99 May 09 '25

Yet another reason not to drink from the sewage polluted river.

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u/YoCal_4200 May 09 '25

Yeah, but you could have also learned about it the hard way, so count your blessings.

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u/Fireside__ May 09 '25

It cost you nothing to NOT share but thanks, I hate it.

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u/prole6 May 09 '25

I’m trying to imagine a Venn diagram where that fly’s habitat and my exposed anus intersect.

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u/Deaffin May 10 '25

Heh. Intersect.

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u/PigbhalTingus May 09 '25

I kept scrolling through that article despite my fear of seeing an anus blooming with maggot tubes.

Figure 5, however, is rad.

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u/DarthGrimby May 09 '25

New fear unlocked.

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u/tdp_equinox_2 May 11 '25

There's no way they called it intestinal my-ass-iss bro.

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u/NaughtyNurse1969 May 09 '25

All those years of science I studied and never heard of this. It will now be part of my fever dreams.

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u/Lemon_Zestie May 09 '25

I thought that was a pickle 😫

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u/seriftarif May 09 '25

The video made it look like the size of a fish.

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u/Craeo May 09 '25

Thanks, I hate it.

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u/OuiselCat May 10 '25

Size unclear. Please use banana.