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Botflies are a Nightmare 😱 | WIRED

Fair warning. This video is about the botfly’s horrific larvae, which grow and feed in human flesh. Don’t say we didn’t warn you. Still haven’t subscribed to WIRED on YouTube? ►► Listen to the Get WIRED podcast ►► Want more WIRED? Get the magazine ►► Also, check out the free WIRED channel on Roku, Apple…

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  1. Alex

    October 24, 2021 at 7:04 pm

    It’s there still someone that thinks that some insects should not be completely annihilated?

  2. Usaid Atif

    October 24, 2021 at 7:15 pm

    Im definitely gonna use tweezers 😖

  3. lucimon97

    October 24, 2021 at 7:18 pm

    What a terrible day to have eyes.

  4. ROB86079

    October 24, 2021 at 7:34 pm

    I’m not waiting 3 months for it to fully grow…..

  5. Crystal M

    October 24, 2021 at 7:49 pm

    Like I’d knowingly let a maggot incubate inside me for 3 months!!! 🤮🤮🤣🤬

  6. carcamclips

    October 24, 2021 at 7:51 pm

    To be honest, it’s disgustingly fascinating. I’d let one live in me just to see it emerge. 🤣 And, by the way, I find those pimple popping, cyst oozing videos gross AF!

  7. Yusuf al-Kafir

    October 24, 2021 at 7:57 pm

    My late cat once had botflies.
    Like half a dozen of them.
    All burrowed in and around his twig and berries.
    What an experience that was for all involved! aye aye aye

  8. Ian Farquharson

    October 24, 2021 at 7:58 pm

    You can tape over them,after a day of so fake tape off N pull out. Their spines detract N it’s easier

  9. Forthereg M

    October 24, 2021 at 8:00 pm

    -Ideally it’d fall onto the soil and grow into an adult.-
    NO … Ideally it’d fall onto the soil and get stepped on.

  10. Leone

    October 24, 2021 at 8:15 pm

    🪰 🤢🤮

  11. David Pirtle

    October 24, 2021 at 8:26 pm

    Why did I click on this while eating???

  12. Mr Davi

    October 24, 2021 at 8:31 pm

    Thanks, now I’m not gonna sleep. :/

  13. Alec K

    October 24, 2021 at 8:48 pm

    Unsubscribe.

  14. Carl Loewenguth

    October 24, 2021 at 9:17 pm

    ideally it will die forever

  15. Montso Mokake

    October 24, 2021 at 9:38 pm

    Can’t handle this.

  16. foggyrange

    October 24, 2021 at 9:39 pm

    Fauci horrific experiments on beagle dogs with flesh eating flies. He had their barking removed while they laying with head eaten.

  17. randomjasmic

    October 24, 2021 at 9:54 pm

    Ideally!? Ideally!!!??? How is anything to do with these even remotely ‘ideally’!?

  18. John john

    October 24, 2021 at 9:57 pm

    Unsubscribe

  19. Jessica Salamon

    October 24, 2021 at 10:09 pm

    Wow it’s the same thing over and over again

  20. champsammy13

    October 24, 2021 at 10:28 pm

    🤢

  21. Marvin Turner

    October 24, 2021 at 10:59 pm

    Yeah, it’s getting killed for sure.

  22. sparky10901

    October 25, 2021 at 12:19 am

    If you allow it to grow into an adult to continue the cycle instead of killing it, you’re an a**hole.

  23. sdafasdfasdfsda

    October 25, 2021 at 12:42 am

    Ummmm, exactly what part of the human body was that thing erupting out of? Looked like some old man balls!

  24. jopojopo1

    October 25, 2021 at 12:51 am

    disgusting

  25. Leland Holton

    October 25, 2021 at 1:07 am

    If you cover it with petroleum jelly or a piece of tape it will die and you can pull it out.

  26. Lam Hung Nguyen

    October 25, 2021 at 1:31 am

    If I get one, I will NOT let it grow into an adult. I’ll put it in the middle of my table, make sure it doesn’t escape, and lets the ants ravage it.

    • CodeNameCheese

      October 25, 2021 at 9:50 am

      Thank you for your service

  27. SOVIETQUEER 117g

    October 25, 2021 at 2:05 am

    We need to fuckin purge ALL BOTFLY SPECIES

  28. zh.

    October 25, 2021 at 3:04 am

    The bigger question is… how do they taste?

  29. big willy

    October 25, 2021 at 3:22 am

    Will God praise those creatures on this Earth

  30. Sugar Wolf

    October 25, 2021 at 4:55 am

    Too short

    • krishna murli

      October 25, 2021 at 5:50 am

      cute beagle

      ,’,.

  31. Melon ADE

    October 25, 2021 at 5:07 am

    What a horrible day to have eyes

  32. Smii7y Milk

    October 25, 2021 at 5:30 am

    New mission

    Get your flamethrowers ready

  33. TCAT

    October 25, 2021 at 5:49 am

    why…

  34. Musception

    October 25, 2021 at 7:37 am

    Why on Earth did I watch this as a first thing in the morning

  35. Random Hajile

    October 25, 2021 at 7:39 am

    *THAT’S IT MAN! GAME OVER MAN! GAME OVER!*

  36. 2Bexposed

    October 25, 2021 at 7:40 am

    Looking forward…

  37. Mike P

    October 25, 2021 at 7:51 am

    gross

  38. Vayne Aurelius

    October 25, 2021 at 7:52 am

    No way i’ll wait 3 months for that thing to grow inside of me.

  39. Lizabell Elicia

    October 25, 2021 at 12:12 pm

    Ewwwwww

  40. Criminal Saint

    October 25, 2021 at 12:57 pm

    Okay, didn’t need to retch in the morning, thanks. But as far as I recall, the easiest way of dealing with these is to apply vaseline or oil onto the area to cut off the oxygen for these little f-ers.

  41. Dawud G Delves

    October 25, 2021 at 12:59 pm

    NO.

  42. Yee T

    October 25, 2021 at 4:10 pm

    For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten so that who ever may believe in him may have eternal life. John 3:16 Jesus died for you so why don’t you live for him. Humble yourself and come before Him and call upon His name. Ask for forgiveness so that your sins may be washed away. This life is nuthin compared to life in heaven. Remember even demons believe in God. God bless 🙂

  43. valeirelav

    October 25, 2021 at 4:17 pm

    “Ideally, it’ll drop into the soil and grow into an adult.” which part of that is suppose to be ideal?!!!!!!!

    • Mary Rose Kent

      October 26, 2021 at 8:12 am

      That it’s no longer living under your skin.

    • Joanna H.

      November 1, 2021 at 1:26 am

      it leaving your body and you not have to worry about it anymore.

      edit: made a typo.

    • Hassan Nour

      November 1, 2021 at 7:28 pm

      @Joanna H. You don’t need to explain your edits here. It’s YouTube not reddit

    • Joanna H.

      November 1, 2021 at 7:47 pm

      @Hassan Nour in another comment section someone told me the fact that i was editing means i changed my information so now i just do it so people don’t get confused 😔

    • drooganX

      November 2, 2021 at 9:00 am

      why wouldn’t you just murder it

  44. Anastasia Celestine

    October 25, 2021 at 4:58 pm

    I have seen where the hold is covered with duct tape or something similar and the larvae comes out enough to be pulled out. Oxygen.

  45. Zoe Arellano

    October 25, 2021 at 5:37 pm

    wtf

  46. NATURAL NIVIA

    October 25, 2021 at 9:18 pm

    🤮🤮🤮🤢🤢🤢🤢

  47. Hans Hosenbund

    October 26, 2021 at 4:03 pm

    I would rather cut this thing out with a rusty spoon, than letting it feast on me for 3 straight months. The resulting scar would serve me as a reminder, that there are still more botflies out there, that need extermination.

  48. James Allen

    October 26, 2021 at 5:02 pm

    No ideally when it drops out, You don’t let it drop to the ground to let it continue reproducing. You burn it, set it on fire, kill it.

  49. Lomokkoe

    October 26, 2021 at 9:09 pm

    Putting Vaseline on the fly seems to suffocate it and make it surface enough to pick based on videos ive seen

  50. Charlie’s BigCheeto

    October 26, 2021 at 10:05 pm

    Gonna throw up now…

  51. Miasma

    October 26, 2021 at 11:46 pm

    No tweezers for me, thanks. Ill just use a lighter to burn it.

  52. Watch It Happen

    October 27, 2021 at 12:01 pm

    Disgusting

  53. Tumata _ Grey

    October 28, 2021 at 3:00 am

    Fk it kill the larway

  54. Abril

    October 28, 2021 at 5:09 am

    This is so disgusting 🤢 I hate mosquitoes even more now

  55. Ricky Webster

    October 28, 2021 at 2:32 pm

    Why would I ever leave it in my skin for months🙄 are you insane

  56. Avishek Naskar

    October 28, 2021 at 3:41 pm

    Wait for 3months and it’ll crawl out and call you daddy.

  57. Miss Gsm

    October 28, 2021 at 5:17 pm

    Go watch the anime Billie Eilish no time to diet 600 lb concert tour, by Dirty Bastages, so funny

  58. Matthew Emmett

    October 29, 2021 at 1:50 pm

    *Gets botfly*
    Yay, now I got a cuddle buddy at bedtime! 😀

  59. Tinkili

    October 29, 2021 at 11:37 pm

    I think this is the root cause for trypophobia.

  60. Pod 042

    October 31, 2021 at 4:38 am

    Didn’t mention that you can suffocate it out

  61. Eduard Hovhannisyan

    October 31, 2021 at 8:01 am

    Buttfly

  62. Emma :P

    November 1, 2021 at 1:26 am

    Alternatively, cover the hole in Vaseline and suffocate the larvae, it will come out of the skin enough to pull it out

  63. Retroglamamour

    November 2, 2021 at 2:42 am

    Gene drive this species outta existence 😭

  64. G_Wave Ready

    November 3, 2021 at 2:06 pm

    Ideally it will drop into a fire and never let this happen to anyone again, you mean

  65. Olga Lebedeva

    November 3, 2021 at 10:18 pm

    Ideally for whom?!! 😳🤣

  66. GhostyyMctoasty

    November 4, 2021 at 5:36 pm

    umm.. so.. anyone know how to leave the universe?

  67. amy chi

    November 4, 2021 at 6:34 pm

    Well a new fear has been unlocked:🤢 is it just me or am i the only one who is checking each and every corner of my skin??😂

  68. Herbert Odilio Balsamo

    November 4, 2021 at 6:38 pm

    And kill it with fire

  69. Pmon200

    November 4, 2021 at 11:08 pm

    Thanks. I hate it.

  70. Hemi

    November 5, 2021 at 12:49 pm

    I don’t know why, but I feel disgusting

  71. Ghosty

    November 6, 2021 at 7:37 pm

    I wouldn’t let it grow into an adult i’d just shoot myself at the spot where the larvae is and then just take a potion of healing🤷‍♂️

    • OutPizzaTheHut

      November 8, 2021 at 9:52 pm

      Lmao😐

  72. just some dude

    November 7, 2021 at 2:05 am

    I would rather rip it out of my skin then let it live. This bug needs to be extinct.

  73. Caelan Holder

    November 7, 2021 at 11:42 pm

    Yeah I have no problem stabbing that thing out for my arm with a dull spoon.

  74. Nikki Moon

    November 8, 2021 at 12:45 pm

    For feck’s sake, nature! 😑

  75. Diego Schlaegel

    November 8, 2021 at 5:37 pm

    Knowingly letting a larvae live in your skin for 3 months means you are mentally insane. You are too dangerous to be alive

  76. cosmic frog47

    November 9, 2021 at 5:14 am

    Wow I can’t sleep now thx

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