The
man, who remains unidentified but is believed to be from India, 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.
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doctor then had to carefully remove the twitching creepy-crawly, using
tiny tweezers to pinch the bug and pull it out of the ear.
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Twitching: What appears to be two of the insects legs are shown fluttering inside the patient's ear canal
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Close-up: As the camera moves towards the cricket, its spiky, flicking legs become more visible
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 as an Indian house cricket.
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