Insect Infestations

Spider Bursts Out of Overripe Banana?

• 20 September 2016

A viral video of a spider breaking out of a banana skin is an animation...

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Spider Bursts Out of Overripe Banana?

Is This a Photograph of a Venomous ‘Asp’ Caterpillar?

• 27 April 2015

This deceptively fluffy-looking caterpillar has a painful sting.

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Is This a Photograph of a Venomous ‘Asp’ Caterpillar?

Spider Lives in Man’s Scar?

• 19 October 2014

A vacationing man discovered that increasing pain he was experiencing was due to a tropical...

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Spider Lives in Man’s Scar?

Spiders in Cheek

• 22 August 2014

Did a swelling on a girl's cheek break open and disgorge hundreds of baby spiders?

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Spiders in Cheek

Did a Family Die After Drinking From a Tea Kettle Poisoned By a Deadly Spider?

• 19 March 2014

Milk, sugar, and poison is not how one typically takes their tea.

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Did a Family Die After Drinking From a Tea Kettle Poisoned By a Deadly Spider?

Cockroach Eggs

• 23 January 2014

The cause of swelling in a girl's jaw is determined to be cockroach eggs she...

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Cockroach Eggs

Are Black-and-White Caterpillars ‘Poisonous’?

• 10 August 2011

Black and white tussock moth caterpillars can cause severe allergic reactions in some people who...

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Are Black-and-White Caterpillars ‘Poisonous’?

Worm in the Eye

• 8 August 2008

Was the larva of a human botfly was removed from a child's eye?

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Worm in the Eye

Walking Stick

• 8 August 2008

Texas dog has unfortunate encounter with a walkingstick from Belize?

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Walking Stick

Fly Boy

• 8 August 2008

Did an Indian boy experience a rare condition in which flies emerged from his groin?

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Fly Boy

Spiders Eggs in Bubble Yum

• 7 July 2008

Does Bubble Yum contain spider eggs?

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Spiders Eggs in Bubble Yum

Lousy Predicament

• 15 April 2008

Bride's inflamed eye is caused by a body louse from a male stripper.

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Lousy Predicament