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08-23-2011, 03:28 AM
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 Ja sam Ja Poster Rank:87 female Join Date: Jul 2010 Posts: 17,554 Mentioned: 57 Post(s) Quoted: 7269 Post(s)
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Re: Mangoworms Again, This Time Its Worse
Wikipedia says:Cordylobia anthropophaga, the mango fly, tumbu fly, tumba fly, putzi fly or skin maggot fly is a species of blow-fly common in East and Central Africa. It is a parasite of large mammals (including humans) during its larval stage .C. anthropophaga has been endemic in the subtropics of Africa for more than 135 years and is a common cause of myiasis in humans in the region. Life cycle: Female tumbu flies deposit 100-300 eggs in sandy soil often contaminated with animal feces. The hatched larvae can remain viable in the soil for 9–15 days until they need to find a host for development.If a larva finds a host, it will penetrate the skin and take 8–12 days developing through three larval stages before it reaches the prepupal stage. It will then leave the host, drop to the ground, bury itself, and pupate. It then becomes an adult fly able to reproduce and begin the cycle all over again. |
This shit made my stomach turn