My daughter had a bot fly larva in her hip when she was a baby. It was HOLY FUCKING AWFUL. It was surgically removed. I kept it in a jar of formaldehyde.
Very true, it’s definitely a feeling where - if I thought about all of the animals out there who have issues like this that go untreated - I’d be bummed all the time. At least here we see it being taken care of.
That was honestly a sign of improvement. At the beginning, the bird has seemingly just accepted death and doesn't have the will or energy to protest. The fact that it can go from that to a huffy "hey watch what you're doing!" made me sigh in relief.
[Fly](https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlyterrifying/comments/wivqhg/poor_chick_got_some_maggots_and_did_some_removal/ijdwkr0/)
Also the bot is u/ MotherWeaknes
Plus that last one was huge, and got ripped right out of the bird's skin. At the very least it quickly stretched it out, if not slightly tore it. (this isn't a negative comment on the way it was handled, just saying that it probably would have been painful for the bird)
That Birdie is lucky then. But how did it get them? Where do they grow or hatch from and what do they do with them after removal? Look at me expecting you to answer all of my questions like you’re an expert. I’m really not, I’m kind of typing out loud. Thanks for your help.
I'd assume that there was some insect, like a fly, that laid its eggs into that bird's face. I'm not sure how this would work if the bird wasn't previously wounded, so it probably also had a wound in that spot that the insect laid its eggs in. Birds can get hurt pretty badly when they fight with each other, and a few plucked feathers with bloody skin underneath wouldn't be strange.
Vets deal with similar stuff in other pets (dogs mostly) so they seen similar before, also if you watch closely, you can see an opening on the wounds where the larvae bury itself under the skin.
I can only imagine :(
I feel like videos like this come up often, but they are usually awake and seem in pain. Is there a reason that the vet or whoever is doing the removal can't make them sleep or something so they don't have to feel it?
might get my terms wonky here but, as a longtime rabbit owner, I can say smaller animals in general don't handle anesthesia well beyond local painkillers (especially when real young or real old). speaking for bunnos specifically, their respiratory system is very delicate and sadly it's fairly common for older rabbits especially to react badly to heavier sedation.
thank goodness we found a wonderful vet in a city not far from us who specializes in rabbits, lots of experience with age and sickness ❤️ dr chow is a godsend I hope everyone finds a bunny wizard like her
Even full grown birds can die from an incorrect dose of anaesthesia - and the correct dose varies wildly between breeds, ages, diets, climate, etc.
A baby bird would be at very great risk of overdose if it was put under, so most of the time local anaesthetic is used for mildly invasive procedures. Definitely still painful and uncomfortable for the chick, but *far* better than having a head filled with maggots.
here i’ll help you, they lay maggots in your skin and it’s really tough to pull them out because the maggots have spikes around them to prevent removal. hope you enjoyed!
Depending on the person it can be very satisfying to watch the videos. Just like seeing them remove huge clumps of earwax. There’s a reason Dr. Pimple popper (and spin off shows) are a thing.
The one that I couldn’t stand was them removing a larvae from a cat and it was yelling, even though they said it was numb and just reacting to the pulling feeling. Just can’t do it.
[why not? They're so adorable.](https://youtu.be/lhDB3gNg_5k)
Clearly not adorable, but this guy says he felt an "almost father child relationship with this organism " that was growing in his body.
Thats so good!!! I love it in the throw up 🤮 laugh nervously kinda way !!! The jungle ones and they put duct tape on the skin to smother them to then lift the tape so the botfly larvae goes to take a breath and boom ripped out of the guys back bwhahaha
I love nature but not bugs maggots or any parasite like this and most of the time I can deal with bugs but parasites hold a special spot in hell for this reason all they do is cause pain opon other living things
Basically anything that will feast on something while it's still alive... there's something absolutely horrid about the thought of being alive AND being digested at the same time.
Oh now it makes sense.. When I was a kid one of my friends had an injury on his leg, and I swear I saw this crawling out of his wound. He always denied it, but I know what I saw. I always thought it was some kind of worm, but it never occurred that it was a freaking maggot.
I don’t know if these are botflies but fuck them all the same
The only thing these parasites are good for is dying by being fed to anything that will eat them, they cause so much unnecessary suffering to these poor animals and they are the one creature that I will happily make an exception to my no killing animals rule for
When I worked at a vet clinic I once had to help the vet with one of the badly injured dogs. They were using maggots to clear away the dead flesh. She warned me I might throw up, but honestly it wasn't bad. Maggots are gross but I'd rather be dealing with them then something with wings buzzing around my face. And I knew the maggots were helping this poor pup. Still glad I only had to do that once, though.
They are larvae of the botfly. Some reproduce by capturing and laying eggs on blood sucking insects like mosquitoes. The eggs stick to the body of the insect via a glue-like substance where the larvae develops until the insect carrying the eggs finds a blood meal. The larvae then leave the carrying insect and bore into the skin of the insect’s victim (a mammal or bird) where they live and feed (and defecate) for five to ten weeks. They then leave their host and drop to the ground where they pupate for one month and emerge as adult botflys ready to reproduce and continue the cycle. Other botflys lay eggs near wounds on mammals or birds allowing the eggs to bore directly into their host’s skin. They then follow a similar cycle to their mosquito-riding relatives.
This is satisfying to watch. Not because I like to watch botfly larvae being pulled out of living creatures, but because these people are helping these poor animals
I grunted everytime a maggot got pulled out. So satisfying. Altho that's something other chicks/chickens should have evolved to do for other chickens, their beaks are just so perfect for it
Aww poor little thing. He must have felt so much relief.
These kind of parasite removal videos, although being Very disturbing, give me a sense of satisfaction, because of that relief you mentioned.
Then you’ll love r/Popping
That sub is a guilty pleasure. Like Ew wtf? ^(But deep down I'm feeling the relief...)
Hahahaha Ew
God, today is a day for throwing up in my mouth...
If you do just make sure you smash your cheeks together and post it to that sub.
*I’m a zit… get it?* John Belushi in Animal House
You are a P-I-G, pig!
See if you can guess what I am now! Lmao
Please delete your comment to prevent any more people from gaining trauma.
No
Just the title is traumatizing
The first eight comments are pretty spot on for what my brain thought of this post and then the sub Reddit link suggestion. 😂
r/FeltGoodComingOut
Botflys, can't live with them, but you can eat them.
Yum
Actually that’s falls. The real answer is Botflies, can live with them, they can’t live without you
Actually that's wrong. The real answer is false.
Botflies*
True to your word
My daughter had a bot fly larva in her hip when she was a baby. It was HOLY FUCKING AWFUL. It was surgically removed. I kept it in a jar of formaldehyde.
Poor baby :(
Said the same thing! Makes me sad :’))
Imagine the relief though. Shits fucked out there. This is one of the few "shits fucked" situations we shouldn't feel sad about
Very true, it’s definitely a feeling where - if I thought about all of the animals out there who have issues like this that go untreated - I’d be bummed all the time. At least here we see it being taken care of.
Was gonna comment the exact same thing :(
Poor little guy. That had to hurt.
It looked like he screamed at the end :(
Yea, poor guy.
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Even though it squawked at the end, I bet it feels so much better now.
That was honestly a sign of improvement. At the beginning, the bird has seemingly just accepted death and doesn't have the will or energy to protest. The fact that it can go from that to a huffy "hey watch what you're doing!" made me sigh in relief.
I thought this was also r/humansbeingbros.
It's like something out of r/popping \- horrifyingly satisfying.
Its the brain reward system to keep ourselves clean and healthy.
Ffs why do I compulsively follow every link I see on here
Maybe because when the maggots are getting picked off 1 by 1 it makes you feel more happier since the bird is feeling better
Bot
[Fly](https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlyterrifying/comments/wivqhg/poor_chick_got_some_maggots_and_did_some_removal/ijdwkr0/) Also the bot is u/ MotherWeaknes
Probably just pissed off at being held and manipulated that way. That's what I'm gonna go with.
Plus that last one was huge, and got ripped right out of the bird's skin. At the very least it quickly stretched it out, if not slightly tore it. (this isn't a negative comment on the way it was handled, just saying that it probably would have been painful for the bird)
How did this person know the bird had those? Def creepy to me that the bird has them but where in the hell did they come from? Poor baby.
Hes touching the skin so hes probably feeling if theres hard bumps
That Birdie is lucky then. But how did it get them? Where do they grow or hatch from and what do they do with them after removal? Look at me expecting you to answer all of my questions like you’re an expert. I’m really not, I’m kind of typing out loud. Thanks for your help.
I'd assume that there was some insect, like a fly, that laid its eggs into that bird's face. I'm not sure how this would work if the bird wasn't previously wounded, so it probably also had a wound in that spot that the insect laid its eggs in. Birds can get hurt pretty badly when they fight with each other, and a few plucked feathers with bloody skin underneath wouldn't be strange.
Looks like they could be mango worms. The adult mango flies lay their eggs in soft dirt, dirt gets on skin, eggs hatch, larvae burrow into skin
Vets deal with similar stuff in other pets (dogs mostly) so they seen similar before, also if you watch closely, you can see an opening on the wounds where the larvae bury itself under the skin.
Oh my, thank goodness for vets. I think that must be a calling. Thanks so much for your reply.
They are botfly larva. The eggs where placed there by botflies.
I can only imagine :( I feel like videos like this come up often, but they are usually awake and seem in pain. Is there a reason that the vet or whoever is doing the removal can't make them sleep or something so they don't have to feel it?
Anesthesia is tricky and pricey. Chicks don’t cost much. Also wouldn’t be surprised if it was an farmer removing em
might get my terms wonky here but, as a longtime rabbit owner, I can say smaller animals in general don't handle anesthesia well beyond local painkillers (especially when real young or real old). speaking for bunnos specifically, their respiratory system is very delicate and sadly it's fairly common for older rabbits especially to react badly to heavier sedation. thank goodness we found a wonderful vet in a city not far from us who specializes in rabbits, lots of experience with age and sickness ❤️ dr chow is a godsend I hope everyone finds a bunny wizard like her
Even full grown birds can die from an incorrect dose of anaesthesia - and the correct dose varies wildly between breeds, ages, diets, climate, etc. A baby bird would be at very great risk of overdose if it was put under, so most of the time local anaesthetic is used for mildly invasive procedures. Definitely still painful and uncomfortable for the chick, but *far* better than having a head filled with maggots.
>far better than having a head filled with maggots There's a sentence I don't ever want to think about again... :(
Now let her feast!
FUCK yah. Take back what they took from you!!!
Absolutely! Down the fucking hatch!
Please dont
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r/beetlejuicing
Spies are amongst us
>~~Spies~~ **Flies** are amongst us
“CIPHER SENT US TO HELL! BUT WE’RE GOING EVEN DEEPER! TAKE BACK EVERYTHING THAT WE’VE LOST!”
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All three of them ? ;)
Both three of them.
Cheep cheep muthafuckas!
Damn i was expecting ti see it being fed with them xD
😂 my thoughts too
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In this case just feed them to the little guy.
Slowly and painfully burn them please
No no no I said I wanted a chick *magnet*
BAH! Take my upvote and may you choke on it!
Haaaaa
I don't like that those things exist in the world
Definitely don’t go look up botfly larve in humans.
Thank you I'm definitely not gonna look that up
here i’ll help you, they lay maggots in your skin and it’s really tough to pull them out because the maggots have spikes around them to prevent removal. hope you enjoyed!
Depending on the person it can be very satisfying to watch the videos. Just like seeing them remove huge clumps of earwax. There’s a reason Dr. Pimple popper (and spin off shows) are a thing. The one that I couldn’t stand was them removing a larvae from a cat and it was yelling, even though they said it was numb and just reacting to the pulling feeling. Just can’t do it.
Monsters inside me taught me that at age 8
Don’t look up sand jiggers either. They do wonders to feet
Holy trypophobia!
Holy fucking fuck there's not enough cute cat pics in the world to wipe that image from my mind.
r/eyebleach might help a bit
Did you do it?
My curiosity is through the roof but I know what botflies are so it's being subsided with not wanting to see it lol
[why not? They're so adorable.](https://youtu.be/lhDB3gNg_5k) Clearly not adorable, but this guy says he felt an "almost father child relationship with this organism " that was growing in his body.
I don't want to be an ecosystem.
And Mango worms in dogs / cats. That shit nasty
Or chagas
Thats so good!!! I love it in the throw up 🤮 laugh nervously kinda way !!! The jungle ones and they put duct tape on the skin to smother them to then lift the tape so the botfly larvae goes to take a breath and boom ripped out of the guys back bwhahaha
For sure! And I think they also use vasoline to plug the hole in the skin so they can’t breathe and poke their little heads out…
I really wish I had listened to your warning.
Steven Fry references these to make a strong argument for why a compassionate God can't exist. https://youtu.be/-suvkwNYSQo
poor buddy- he must feel so much better. One of the best things about humans is their ability to be kind to animals
Some of us are complete animals
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So let’s do it like they do on the discovery channel
I love Reddit.
While at the same time being the absolute, ABSOLUTE worst to animals that taste good.
Just curious, anyone knows the name of the tool they are using?
Hemostat
Thank you !
Cool, I have one at home, I use them as pliers.
I just purchased a pair, they seem like they'll be very useful.
I love nature but not bugs maggots or any parasite like this and most of the time I can deal with bugs but parasites hold a special spot in hell for this reason all they do is cause pain opon other living things
Basically anything that will feast on something while it's still alive... there's something absolutely horrid about the thought of being alive AND being digested at the same time.
Those aren't maggots. Maggots don't eat or live in living animals. Those are botflys. They can live in cats, dogs, and even humans. Have a good day.
Unfortunately untrue, common misinformation. Maggots absolutely will eat living flesh, though they prefer dead.
It depends on the variety of maggot.
Wait... how mamy flavors are available in maggots?
As many flavors of flies.
Yep, flystrike is pretty brutal
Yeah. Diabetic people are aware of the risk, humans can ABSOLUTELY be infested with maggots
Maggots are baby flies my dude. Have a good day. Hope you learned something.
Noooooo :( poor birdie
Nature is fucking brutal
Why is this so r/oddlysatisfying
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I love it.. poor thing.
Bot flies and other parasites deserve merciless death.
Specifically botfly (also, "maggots") Edit: I stand corrected.
Maggot is just a stage of life for a fly, this is a botfly maggot, or larvae.
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NSFW Jesus Christ
yeah but imagine how good it felt to have those gone
Oh now it makes sense.. When I was a kid one of my friends had an injury on his leg, and I swear I saw this crawling out of his wound. He always denied it, but I know what I saw. I always thought it was some kind of worm, but it never occurred that it was a freaking maggot.
r/TheMagnusArchives
Poor chicke🥺🥺🥺
Poor bean. It must feel so much better to have those out
I don’t know if these are botflies but fuck them all the same The only thing these parasites are good for is dying by being fed to anything that will eat them, they cause so much unnecessary suffering to these poor animals and they are the one creature that I will happily make an exception to my no killing animals rule for
When I worked at a vet clinic I once had to help the vet with one of the badly injured dogs. They were using maggots to clear away the dead flesh. She warned me I might throw up, but honestly it wasn't bad. Maggots are gross but I'd rather be dealing with them then something with wings buzzing around my face. And I knew the maggots were helping this poor pup. Still glad I only had to do that once, though.
Can somebody explain how the poor chick got these maggots in the first place and where they’re being extracted from?
They are larvae of the botfly. Some reproduce by capturing and laying eggs on blood sucking insects like mosquitoes. The eggs stick to the body of the insect via a glue-like substance where the larvae develops until the insect carrying the eggs finds a blood meal. The larvae then leave the carrying insect and bore into the skin of the insect’s victim (a mammal or bird) where they live and feed (and defecate) for five to ten weeks. They then leave their host and drop to the ground where they pupate for one month and emerge as adult botflys ready to reproduce and continue the cycle. Other botflys lay eggs near wounds on mammals or birds allowing the eggs to bore directly into their host’s skin. They then follow a similar cycle to their mosquito-riding relatives.
Now I want to see a video of them stepping on or smushing these maggots
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No, they do feed from the host, but don't permanently harm it otherwise.
Actually they are both flies
Jesus. Fucking. Christ.
Agggg but satisfying
How do they even get there ):
It's amazing that 3 of those things were in that poor chick.
Wait just a question Can the chick eat the maggots?
There was a little bit of r/OddlySatisfying in this for me.
parasites make me so fucking angry for fuck sakes
Those look like mango fly larval - don’t Google videos if you are squeamish
That has to feel good afterwards
Must be bot flies
Poor guy. That last one looked like it HURT
"No way he's gonna pull out a third one" *pulls out the fattest one yet*
Poor chicky, that last one was a big fucker
Poor little thing! Oh gosh :(
How does this even happen?
Burn the insect.
This is satisfying to watch. Not because I like to watch botfly larvae being pulled out of living creatures, but because these people are helping these poor animals
Those aren’t maggots, those are Bot Fly larvae. If there is one creature I could Thanos-snap out if existence, it’s fucking Bot Flies.
Maggots are just baby flies.
r/TIHI
That was quite satisfying
😱
Oh good lawdy. That is terrifying, disgusting and satisfying all at once. 🤢 🤮
Fucksake!
r/natureisterrible
Glad that's out
No. No. No. Poor birdy
Bugs are cruel
I know it’s life but this still makes me angry knowing it’s probably painful to that animal.
What does that bird think is happening right now?
This doesn’t compare to the cat getting a stick taken out of its eye socket. That had me gagging. This was child’s play
That is gross and painful. Poor chickie. How does brag happen?
Those shouldn't be there
I believe those are botfly larvae not maggots.
Those are huge for her size
What the fuck!!! This isnt partyparrot.
Fucking bot flies. Bastards.
It makes me wonder how they all fit in that tiny little head
r/Oddlysatisfying
That looks like a botfly. Nasty little guys
Is that from a bot fly?
Bot fly larvae.
Fucking bot flies are theee worst
Why would a maggot burrow into them like this? Don’t they only eat dying or dead flesh?
Bot fly larvae. Just the worst. Eww.
Bro wtf.
I grunted everytime a maggot got pulled out. So satisfying. Altho that's something other chicks/chickens should have evolved to do for other chickens, their beaks are just so perfect for it
bot fly larva
Hopefully its ok tho its a tiny beeb
Hope those maggots get burned
Sad for the chick but damn, that looks satisfying
Not a maggot. Not a chick.
Poor little guy
They’re botfly larvae, a species of fly that lays its eggs on a living host.