I am a curious person, and I read a lot of scientific articles. A lot of them. And I am known to go down rabbit holes, reading one article and then looking at the citations to find my way to other articles.
I read an article today I wish I hadn't.
Imagine something like the larvae below (ringed with barbs). I read the abstract for the article linked below, and thought, "That's awful. What the cuss is a botfly?"
Cutaneous infestation of the scrotum with botfly larva from the order Dioptera, family Cuterebridae, species Dermatobia hominis is extremely rare. The first reported case of scrotal myiasis in the United States of America is described here. There is increased potential for human infestation with...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
I looked it up. This is what the larvae look like:
If I were going to make a new evil Kaiju for a Japanese horror movie, this would be it. Can anyone top this? If you were going to take a small insect and make it a giant Kaiju for a Japanese movie, what would it be?