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<blockquote data-quote="MBullock" data-source="post: 216350" data-attributes="member: 33994"><p>small-headed flies will lodge themselves into a book lung and wait there dormant for several years before beginning to consume the host. the symptom is often swelling around the book lungs- the larva eats nonvital parts first, then finally goes for the nervous system and completes the life cycle. </p><p> </p><p></p><p>last year we caught a whole bunch of olios giganteus from tucson and they almost all had small-headed flies in them. even the widows we got all had them, too.</p><p> </p><p>the only spiders i caught that day that DIDNT have em were just two olios and a couple of hogna, minus the tarantulas</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MBullock, post: 216350, member: 33994"] small-headed flies will lodge themselves into a book lung and wait there dormant for several years before beginning to consume the host. the symptom is often swelling around the book lungs- the larva eats nonvital parts first, then finally goes for the nervous system and completes the life cycle. last year we caught a whole bunch of olios giganteus from tucson and they almost all had small-headed flies in them. even the widows we got all had them, too. the only spiders i caught that day that DIDNT have em were just two olios and a couple of hogna, minus the tarantulas [/QUOTE]
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