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What is your deepest, darkest fear?
Submitted by [Susan].
G. Fälschung and A. P. Gracejo from Conte Grand Hospital (Switzerland) reported in the April issue of the Swiss Journal of Emergency Medicine that several children in southern Europe needed medical assistance for - get this - aural earwig infestations. Not only were earwigs living in their ear canals, but they were apparently imbibing hemolymph in well established "nests" sealed off with wax. (shudder) Several ears even showed evidence of burrowing by the wayward dermapterans, with at least one early instar earwig extracted from deep within the cochlea of one patient and eggs reportedly clustered on the temporal lobe of another. (yikes) Symptoms were described as "general irritation, scratching and 'popping' sounds, bloody discharge, dizziness, hearing loss, insomnia, depression, and, in one case, mild cognitive decline"
The x-ray below shows earwigs consuming aural hemolymph.
*SHUDDER*
I have to go poke my mind's eye out now.
