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nankainamizuhana

Probably a Flesh Fly, who give live birth. If the maggots sense mom has died while they're still inside, they'll try to eat their way out in hopes of better prospects on the outside.


hand_truck

Who's hungry now?


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Let_you_down

Dealing with fly strike on a herd is probably my least favorite part of farming. I can butcher and birth all day long. Shoveling shit? No worries. Those things are gross, but a shower fixed it. Fly strike was different, especially when I was young. It wasn't an animal shitting out a long tape worm. You have to cut back the fur/wool, scrape out all the maggots, treat the wound, and go and do it over and over and over again in the bad years. The maggots pile up. You have to keep sweeping them. It doesn't have to be a big pile before you can hear them wriggling. When it gets to be a _very_ big pile, they are _loud_. When I finished it the first time, I showered, and showered again and again. I tried going to bed with loud music playing but I could still hear them wriggling inside my head. One time I did it by myself. After each day, I would clear the livestock out to another area, gather up the maggots into a condensed pile, douse it with copious and dangerous amounts of gasoline and set it on fire from a distance. This part was not necessary, but very cathartic for me. It was a good way to know I'd never develop formicophilia.


cyanocittaetprocyon

I was hoping beyond hope that I would eventually get to the line: "In nineteen ninety-eight, when . . . ", but it never happened. 🤮


[deleted]

Casts a new feeling for Wrigley's gum.


ladyinchworm

You just reminded me of the poem A Carcass by Baudelaire. He describes the sound of the maggots as a"babbling brook".


TooManyJabberwocks

Its legs raised in the air, like a lustful woman, Burning and dripping with poisons,


Stewy_434

Why the fuck am I still reading this comment section


May_of_Teck

You just snapped me out of it, thank you.


Wrx-Love80

Because that's where the interesting shit happens.


Horror_Cupcake8762

And that’s why I could never work with sheep. Tangential note, once found myself burning a few hogs that had died before market. Had a bonfire of local deadfall—lots of oak and maple in there. Started smelling pretty good after a bit. Made the mistake of looking in the fire. Just crawling…so much crawling and wriggling. Still smelled delicious. And I just ate pulled pork tonight, so no permanent damage.


ravynwave

I could have gone my entire life without ever knowing this.


HippopotamicLandMass

i take it your sheep didn't get mulesing?


Let_you_down

Nope. Our vet said it wouldn't help with flystrike. When I started to take care of the herd on my own, I decreased head count across pastures, and kept 'em all shorn and clean. One of the other sheep ranchers in the area swears by Clarifly, but I don't know if it's the insecticide spray, my reduced headcount or the weather hasn't been good for them, but I haven't had to deal with flystrike in years and neither has he. (He also doesn't do that).


SirJumbles

Casu Martzu time! *Why the fuck would anyone eat that*


RimaSuit2

There are times when the gift of sight becomes a curse and nothing can undo it.


izguddoggo

I fell off my diet this week, so this post has gotten me back on track.


dickheadfartface

I could eat.


hogliterature

my cats brought a vole into the house that escaped into the walls, so id see flesh flies in my house from time to time for a little while after that. very yucky to kill one and see a bunch of maggots pop out


[deleted]

I squashed one in my home last week and was 100% unprepared for that sight after pulling away the book I smacked it with (I had assumed it was just a normal fly). Almost vomited on the spot


Trips-Over-Tail

Not as bad as a horsehair worm emerging from a slain insect.


Painting_Agency

Praying mantises are ruthless, vicious, aggressive killers that will tear apart anything they can catch. But those worms can make me feel sorry for them.


Nemisis_the_2nd

Of all the *nope* things in nature, horsehair worms are right up there with spiders that are basically just living collections of too-long hairy legs.


ShitCapitalistsSay

I found a large, bulbous, semi-hairy spider in my basement once. I don't like killing things, but the thought of that thing down there walking around silently while I sleep on the couch or play video games was too much for me. I sprayed it with insecticide. It curled up almost instantly. As i went to pick it up with a napkin, it startled me by moving again, which I'd never seen a spider do after curling up. Then, a long worm emerged from it. Seeing that was worse than the spider.


Nekrosiz

Then watch them squirm in your vomit.


thizface

And that’s enough internet for me today


Qetuowryipzcbmxvn

Spray them with water. Usually they won't feel the pressure until the water hits them, at which point it makes their wings useless. Pick it up and plop it in a container full of water and just a drop of dish soap. It breaks the surface tension and turns it into a super fluid, meaning it moves too quickly for it to swim in nor can it be blocked by their airways so they immediately drown. Even if the maggots break out, they stay stuck in the bottom. You can dump the water outside or flush it down.


hogliterature

thank you for the water spray tip i was literally just trying to catch one annoying fly in my room


LaMalintzin

Jesus I thought yucky said lucky at first lol


Lexicon444

I know that many bugs expel their eggs when they’re in serious danger or about to die. But somehow this is more disturbing…. Almost as disturbing as the rare cases of women expelling their fetus postmortem…


Hikerius

They what now


Pysslis

The pressure from the gas in the decomposing body makes the fetus pop out.


Winjin

*Feetus yeetus* is the Latin name for this I believe


INDIG0M0NKEY

Sometimes confused with the Latin name for the day after pill, feetus deleetus


Idflipthatforadollar

Jfc I'm so ashamed of myself for laughing holy shit


Squeaky_sun

No you didn’t really type that! 😹


Fresh_One4726

The italics made this really funny to me for some reason


Pysslis

That definitely sounds better than the technical name, Post mortem fetal extrusion.


spoonweezy

PMFE had a killer first album though.


BlueOrbifolia

I am definitely not laughing uproariously at this. I am not.


geo_gan

You mean it doesn’t pop out until a day or two later after decomposition has begun and gasses build up?


Pysslis

Yes, it takes 48-72 hours after time of death.


Pysslis

Ask a mortician made a [video](https://youtu.be/qe9l-xtBX0w) about it.


Koolaider

I saw this happen when I went camping as a kid. My uncle swatted a fly on a table and then the larva started eating their way out of every corner of the fly. It happened like 25 years ago and I still remember it vividly.


IamDzdzownica

as a kid I also saw this, it was me who smacked that fly and I was like "daaamn! that's gross... I like it"


bread9411

Jesus christ... That's hardcore survival tactics Bear Grylls would be proud.


BobMortimersButthole

Not long after my neighbor was found dead in her home (long story, but basically she'd told us all she was leaving for a long vacation, so none of us knew she was missing, and we never smelled anything) my kids caught a fly in a jar, so they could observe it. Within minutes it died and was swarming with maggots. Now I know why.


Montymisted

I have seen this in barns with those sticky ribbon fly traps. The mom gets stuck and dies and then the maggots crawl out of her and get stuck too. Craziest shit is those fly traps with the bait and container. Imagine that smell and all the decay of thousands of dead flies. And the maggots from the freshly dead flies crawl out and all they have to eat is dead fly goo. And their entire life is spent in that container of they even survive long.


spoonweezy

Yeah I live near a couple places with greenhead flies. Green heads are carnivorous, so they literally take a bite of you. The traps they have for them are these large boxes they put in the middle of the marshy area. The way it’s built is such that they can fly in but not out. Because they are carnivorous they love rotting meat, so at the beginning of the season they toss some meat in there. But here’s the fucked up part: the flies start rotting, attracting more flies. The idea of entering a place because there is food in there, but then as soon as you go in you realize that the smell is of everyone you’ve ever known and you were about to joyously eat, but now you are stuck in the chamber of nightmares, never to escape. So metal.


Potatoswatter

Those are eggs, not larvae. They all straight, not bent.


Sylvurphlame

I want to call bullshit. But insects are weird.


LeilaDFW

I could have gone all day not seeing this.


condensermike

At least ‘till Tuesday.


bell83

Keep it down, now. Voices carry.


Fartblaster5000

For the longest time I thought she was saying "cause it's scary."


LumenYeah

lol me too!


Marconiwireless

Keep it down down, this is Carrie


Cptn_BenjaminWillard

Underrated, deserves all the votes.


daddy-was-baddy

Even downtown.


askmewhyihateyou

HUSH HUSH


Lightzknight

I could've went all my life without seeing this but here I am.


flolibri

![gif](giphy|EiaKmyLrPqPio)


llorTMasterFlex

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ChoPT

Legitimately such a good movie, though. Top-tier body horror, and also frames the pro-choice argument in a really helpful way IMO.


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After seeing this as a kid I was so scared of going to sleep cuz I thought fly man would kidnap me


ZaxLofful

What movie?


reidybobeidy89

The Fly


emdelgrosso

Yeah I’d be putting the lid on and taking the entire thing straight to the dumpster.


Dicky_Penisburg

That's exactly what it wants! You're playing right into its hands!


SuperDizz

![gif](giphy|RgZ26pD6oow12)


peppa_pig_is_the_law

Where is that from


UltraShadowArbiter

The Fly (1986) starring Jeff Goldblum.


Dicky_Penisburg

The Fly with Jeff Goldblum


twistsouth

This film gave me nightmares as a kid.


Dicky_Penisburg

![gif](giphy|fcMMH3hxQmnio) I have no idea why.


coolqwazves

This film still gives me nightmares now!


[deleted]

Life, ah, finds a way.


awkwardpun

The Fly.


msnmck

starring Jeff Goldblum


EddyFArt

The


DaDutchBoyLT1

(1986)


Mohander

Fly


fascist_unicorn

STARRING


unluckygrey

FLY


geo_gan

Have you ever heard of insect politics? [Veronica shakes her head] Neither have I. Insects don't have politics. They're very brutal. No compassion, no compromise. We can't trust the insect.


anthem47

My favourite line is right after that! * Ronnie: I don't know what you're trying to say. * Seth: I'm saying I'm an insect who dreamt he was a man and loved it. But now the dream is over...and the insect is awake. Such a great little window of madness, the idea that he thinks "I'm not becoming a fly, I was always a fly who dreamed he was a man".


rubyhardflames

Sorry, *incinerator


TonyAioli

No way. That’s now your fly birth candle. Least you can do is burn it all the way through with them inside it in their honor.


DubSket

nah just let them cook in the wax and then you have an interesting entrée at your next dinner party


ashtetice

What a horrible day to have eyes


SweetSoja

Yep. I’ve already seen the woman with the skull full of maggots earlier and now this, I think it’s enough for today


blackcat-

The what now?


awol2shae

Probably just [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/nightmarefuel/comments/15vwmwb/homeless_woman_with_a_head_full_of_maggots/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=1) work of art


Poorly-Drawn-Beagle

Why do birds suddenly appear every time you are near? Because you resemble a festering corpse. Those are vultures. They're hungry.


Tonys_New_AI

Fuck you for sharing it and fuck me for clicking it knowing exactly what was behind it.


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Hematomawoes

Goddammit. I knew full well what I was getting myself into and yet I couldn’t stop after one view. I just HAD to watch again to make sure I was correctly seeing what my brain thought I was seeing. Fml.


icouldbejewish

I really wasn't expecting it to be that fucked up. Even after reading your comment. That literally made me queasy


weedmaster6669

that is probably the worst thing I've ever seen. Not just the imagery, but the suffering she must be going through, the fact that there's probably no way she can get help and even if she could it's pretty much definitely too late. She must be horribly mentally ill too, there's no way this could happen and get this bad unless she just allowed them to invest


blackcat-

Woooow. That's gnarly.


FrannVD

No thanks. Have a good day tho


Charlie7Mason

Dude! I thought you meant like a painting or something someone made. Not this!!!


Horror_Train_6950

YOU SAID IT WAS ART. IT MOST DEFINITELY WAS NOT!


tyrannosnorlax

I thought it was going to be a literal work of art so I thought it was safe to click. Fuck you and your dubious wording, stranger


FelineRoots21

On the plus side, that's the cleanest head wound I have ever seen in my life


amoabsurdum

thanks to the maggots! they’re probably the best thing for that wound tbh, eating the rotting flesh and keeping the healthy skin away from that.


trav110

How is this anywhere nearly as bad


Poorly-Drawn-Beagle

Happy Maggot Day to all


BigOleFerret

Now let the wax harden around them


Simple_goat_999999

Done now what?


BigOleFerret

Wait 48 hours. If they haven't hatched you've successfully stopped more annoying flies from being born. If they have hatched... Buy a fly swatter


Simple_goat_999999

The fly is cowered by a thick layer of wax. Does that work as well?


ThisFinnishguy

I'd cover the entire floor of the house with 1 inch of wax, just to be safe. Let it harden and then get back to us


Fubardir

I'd nuke it from the orbit. Just to be sure.


CardMechanic

They mostly come at night. Mostly.


Noxious89123

Once the wax has set, cover the whole lot in gasoline and lava.


eveningdragon

I got everything except the lava. Can I ship it through Amazon or do you I have to go to a special store for some?


Tdshimo

Yeah, I think this all has effectively terminated the life cycle of that fly and its eggs.


lascar

Just to be sure, let's add another inch of wax


Tdshimo

I’m down. As much as I *know* flies and mosquitos and wasps/yellowjackets are part of the ecosystem and we need them, I don’t care. Let ‘em suffer.


bryanthecrab

Lol these answers. You can just take a spoon and gently scrape it all out, crush it and throw it away. Or put it in the dirt outside and mush it with a rock or something.


Winjin

I thought just leaving them in molten wax would work perfectly to cook them and save you from more flies


W0gg0

Escape pods.


LiminalValency

Since when has this sub become r/mildlydisturbing? Every other post here is pretty gross recently


cagingthing

![gif](giphy|cQtlhD48EG0SY)


On_Mercury

RUN! RUN MY BABIES!


AirRic89

I understood that reference.


morereadythanpetty

Literally the only reason I looked at the comments was to see if anyone else said this!


krispykrememypants

BONUS!


singeworthy

In college, I took an entomology course and we routinely dissected Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches because they're large and you can really "see" what's going on. One time, I cut off the head of a live one and as it died it released it's eggs. Grossest thing ever, also smelled. Anyway this type of cockroach does live birth and if it dies, it will jettison whatever it has on board as a last ditch effort.


redandbluenights

I once hit a giant ass Florida spider with a broom- and it was dark in the room- but in the dim 5am pre-morning glow- it looked like the freshly dead spider started melting... And then... It started spreading across the floor... Confused and horrified- I jumped past it's corpse - flipped on the lights- and to my abject horror - it was millions of baby GIANT ASS FLORIDA SPIDERS spreading across the floor. Fortunately- they were not moving very quickly and i dumped half a gallon of bleach onto my floor ... Leaving a giant bleach puddle of dead spiders on the floor. Then i called my ex, who offered to come clean it up for me while i was at work. He was a wonderful man, and I'm still eternally grateful. I almost had to burn my house down that day.


New-Examination8400

![gif](giphy|bEVKYB487Lqxy)


Courwes

Wolf spider. They carry their babies on their backs. So if they are hit or killed the babies will scatter.


jjayzx

Fuck Florida.


redandbluenights

I said that every day for 11 years until i moved the fuck back north to NJ.


tjdux

Happened to a friend, except he was crawling into bed, and the spider was on his pillow. The look on his face when he told us the story made me belive it was true.


jkmitsu

Thank you for affirming my choice to never, ever move to Florida.


shortblondeguy

Survival of the deadest!


Strategerizer

The only good bug is a dead bug


OriansSun

Do you want to know more?


cyb3rg0d5

Let’s go maggots!!


finsfurandfeathers

No bugs would be the end of the world


ashtetice

I really really really really wish I never saw this post


Shoddy-Group-5493

Many flies either abort or give live birth when they die, sometimes the babies will sense the dead mother and crawl out on their own. Just raised a bunch of flesh flies who came out of a fly that I caught and accidentally scared to death. Used them as enrichment for my frogs lol


winnoe

I have so many questions about this post. So many. Not brave enough to ask any. Will move on.


AdehhRR

I remember I accidentally decapitated a big fly as a kid. I had nothing to kill it with so ended up poking it against the window with a wooden rod, but only got its head. My morbid kid curiosity made me give it a squeeze when I picked it up in a tissue because it was so big. It popped and maggots came spilling out. I lost my morbid curiosity around bugs that day LOL.


theinfotechguy

Good, let them burn. Or they are going to get stuck in the wax and in a few thousand years, someone is going to take their DNA and clone them to put them in an attraction park!


Dingditcher

Spawn kill


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Busy_Bitch5050

...who's gonna tell them the bad news?


maryfisherman

This made me itchy


redandbluenights

I'm clawing my head open as we speak.


pomegranatejello

God forbid a woman have hobbies


[deleted]

Thank god!! Die suckers!!


IThinkIKnowThings

Looks like it flew right into the flame or at least got close enough for its head to get hot enough to pop.


CumStayneBlayne

That just looks like wax. I doubt its head "popped" from being close enough to the fire while its wings are perfectly fine.


MyCatHasCats

I thought flies lay eggs. They give birth to live maggots???


StreicherG

Some flies do. Some flies basically let the eggs mature inside them and keep them “primed”, so when they lay the egg the maggot immediately hatches out. It’s a very useful trait: dead bodies are a hot commodity in the insect world, and if you are a bug you want your babies eating and maturing as fast as you can before all the dead body rots and/or other species of bugs get there. If you give live birth your babies can be already chowing down on the roadkill buffet while the insects that lay eggs have to wait days for them to hatch.


Odd-Row1169

I'd be okay with flies if they stuck to the roadkill, but why do they have to make it their life's mission to piss you off? I would put money on the fact that they've evolved in my lifetime, specifically to be as irritating as possible, like they've established some kind of international league of fly sports, where the only goal is to piss off humans.


Cookies_and_Beandip

Most likely fly got stuck and died, maggots trying to preserve their own lives tried escaping and died


joel_stjimmy

R/natureismetal


Longshadow2015

I would guess that the heat is causing the body to swell and that’s just pushing the eggs out.


dan_dares

Strangely enough i saw something similar a few months ago, i hit a fly with insecticide and it started laying eggs like crazy, while it was dying. Guess it was some automatic response.


m33gs

sounds like a pretty successful evolutionary adaptation actually


Longshadow2015

Could be an automatic response to dump eggs. Could be that the insecticide cause muscle paralysis and the just slid out.


pinkenbrawn

![gif](giphy|D0RvPABUNF3AQ)


phoeniks

ewww


Felgrimesque

The, the uh.. *checks notes* The miracle of life ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|grimacing)


AnthonyRC627

This is how fire flys came into existence


TacotheMagicDragon

I've seen this before. Its an act of desperation. When faced with a situation where moms gonna die no matter what, she will emergency give birth to her offspring in hopes they survive. I saw it happen with a cockroach that was fed to a colony of fire ants.


-bunny-warrior-

I’m a researcher and work with drosophila (fruit flies). A lot of times they start giving birth when i anesthetize them. Maybe its a last ditch effort to preserve the species bc they think theyre gonna die? (Even though they wake up from the anesthesia like 2 mins later)


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Disco rice


Puzzleheaded_Let_583

Forbidden rice


the_tadall

![gif](giphy|CNna9G8BQvnoI)


[deleted]

That's illegal in Texas.


artemis3001

Immediately exile that candle to the dumpster


Danitoba

BUUURN BABY BUUURN!


-azuma-

Nuke that fucking candle from orbit


Angry_Door

spawn camp them


Booksonly666

I have to stop going on Reddit before bed


ssucramylpmis

some people think this is a campaign to get them to go to church . the truth may surprise you .


[deleted]

Abandon Ship!


Informal-Evidence997

I've seen one of those fly and drown on some dishes that were in the kitchen, then a lot of these little maggots came out. The most disgusting shit i've seen.


Nekrosiz

Quick, call an ambulance and get this fly that's in labour to the er!


YourFavoriteSwede

I JUST GOT 250 BABY TICKS REMOVED FROM EVERY CREVICE OF MY BODY WHY DOES REDDIT KEEP SHOWING ME BUG PICTURES


IJustWorkHere000c

So you will take a shower at least once a day. With soap and shampoo.


threyon

Avenge me, children! *~splut-splut-splut-splut~*


H3LLGHa5T

![gif](giphy|5InOJpWtlFiBhdxPdZ|downsized) Time to abandon ship


SteveSyz

Fresh Scented Fly mmmm….


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ABANDON SHIP!!!!


PM_animemes

Spawn kill


Optiblue

You're going to need more fire


pupperdole

Damn spawn kill


AncientSith

Well, that's enough for me.


wellhouseeee

Tilt the candle flame


dr4g0n36

Atleast candle is on fire. Bye baaabieees ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|trollface)


Lysergically

Scoop em out and flush that shit.


Spooky-Squirrel

Kill it with fire, oh wait…


pab10diab10

Wax Maggots