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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/14/13 10:45 AM, Bryant, James
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Back in 1980, I
attended a Washington Entomological Society lecture at
SI-NMNH entitled “Insects of Medical Importance”. The
presentation’s content intentionally excluded all vector
species as well as species with bites or stings. One of the
more remarkable stories involved a curator at the
institution who developed symptoms of a bad sinus infection.
After some suffering, he sneezed one day and found an adult
insect in his handkerchief. It was a species that he had
apparently inhaled during a less cautious moment using an
aspirator in the field. Needless to say, the adult insect
went into the collection…and was on view at the lecture.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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This particular case is rather infamous; Paul D. Hurd, Jr., while in
the frigid North, was aspirating collembolans, and some of their
eggs made it past he filter of his aspirator. They hatched and grew
into a significant population, eventually leading to a severe sinus
problem. His doctor wrote this up and published it, and this brief
note is today the basis for tens of thousands of people who claim
that it is medical proof that collembolans are parasitic; there are
now companies who manufacture and sell medication to eliminate
collembolan infections, to cater to all of these people who believe
they have collembolans burrowing in their flesh.<br>
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Oh, well...<br>
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Doug Yanega Dept. of Entomology Entomology Research Museum
Univ. of California, Riverside, CA 92521-0314 skype: dyanega
phone: (951) 827-4315 (disclaimer: opinions are mine, not UCR's)
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://cache.ucr.edu/~heraty/yanega.html">http://cache.ucr.edu/~heraty/yanega.html</a>
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness
is the true method" - Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chap. 82</pre>
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