Doctor Pulls 3 Inch Cricket Alive From Patient’s Inner Ear

 

This is the horrifying moment that a man has a live cricket pulled from his inner ear. The man, who remains unidentified, arrived at the doctor's complaining that his ear was itchy - only to discover that a three-inch insect burying in his ear canal was the source of his discomfort. Continue...

  

A doctor then had to carefully remove the twitching creepy-crawly, using tiny tweezers to pinch the bug and pull it out of the ear. A video taken of the incredible procedure was posted online.

Experts have suggested the cricket crawled in the ear in search of shelter during daylight hours.

Michael Sweet, lecturer at the University of Derby, an expert on invertebrate biology, identified the creature to Daily Star Online as an Indian house cricket.
He said: 'These critters are known to be an invasive species, appearing all over the globe.

'They like warm countries and hide during the day. It is likely this cricket crawled into the man's ear while he was sleeping and was just hiding there until night came around.'

                        

The footage starts with a camera that looks inside the patient's ear and shows the insect's legs twitching in the air.

The doctor then retrieves his narrow tweezers and uses them to gently pry the cricket from its new home.

He is careful not to simply dislodge the moving insect - fearing that it could bury further in.

Once it is firmly in the doctor's grasp, the cricket is lifted out into the darkened room and placed against the man's ear - to show just how big the creature is. The video ends with the cricket, still alive, crawling on a piece of paper.

                     
Mr Sweet added that it was likely that the creature would have crawled out on its own.