When I saw this video, I remembered the countless times I removed different kinds of insect in the ears of a lot of people at the Jose Reyes Medical Center's Emergency Room. These were the cases that we usually attended to especially in the wee hours of the morning, with patients claiming "something" crawled up in their ear while they were sleeping. I have removed cockroaches, wasps, moths and even worms! I remember one case where a mentally challenged individual was brought to us complaining of movements inside his ear, and on otoscopy and endoscopy, we saw several moving "fruit" worms in his middle ear! We had to bring him to the operating room to put him under sedation to be able to remove the worms. A colleague of mine reported once that he removed several live and feeding ticks in 2 sisters who had a shihtzu sharing their bed. He also had an experience of removing live maggots in the one ear canal which burrowed in the middle ear! It may be so "gros...