UrsulaV
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Since I've been blogging on and off about the infestation of squirrel botflies in the woods behind my house, and the resulting lumpy squirrels, somebody asked me my opinion on these the other day, and I'd never heard of them.
http://www.skinparasites.com/ (No icky photos or anything.)
Other than a passing morbid curiousity about the botflies, I have about as much experience in parasitology as I do in mammoth wrangling, so I have no idea what constitutes acceptable evidence for this sort of thing. Still, it sounded kinda fishy to me--the supposed parasite couldn't be detected by science, it looked like a whole bunch of different things, and it didn't go away when you steam cleaned the carpets.
Has anybody else heard of this? Are there really undetectable mystery bugs out there, or is this a support group for the modern day version of "There's bugs crawling on me"?
http://www.skinparasites.com/ (No icky photos or anything.)
Other than a passing morbid curiousity about the botflies, I have about as much experience in parasitology as I do in mammoth wrangling, so I have no idea what constitutes acceptable evidence for this sort of thing. Still, it sounded kinda fishy to me--the supposed parasite couldn't be detected by science, it looked like a whole bunch of different things, and it didn't go away when you steam cleaned the carpets.
Has anybody else heard of this? Are there really undetectable mystery bugs out there, or is this a support group for the modern day version of "There's bugs crawling on me"?