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LeftHander

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Wed Jul-18-07 11:34 AM
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8. They have spikes that hold them in...

If you pull them out they grab hold with the spikes and can break open and cause horrible infection.

My Bio Prof got one in his arm when he went to Amazon birding...he smoked a couple of packs of cigarettes through a hanky until it was good and brown then tied it around where the bot was. After a day or so, the nicotine in the tar anesthetized the bot larvae and then he was able to pull it out....

yuuuk....

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