Sunday, May 03, 2009

Are Angels, Insects?

Maybe, maybe not.

The theory that angels may actually be insects is plenty troubling. But even more troubling is the uncanny resemblance Cephenemyia bot flies bear to Mallophora robber flies. I mean, honestly, is there any way to tell them apart, without sticking ones finger in their mouths? Or, sticking ones finger where a mouth ought to be.

Yes. The existence of Cephenemyia bot flies created a panic of one in these parts. Once I discovered that such hideously deceptive insects existed, I turned to the internet to discover additional important information about Cephenemyia bot flies. Like I wanted to know how big they are compared to Mallophora robber flies.

Yet the internet provided no help. So now I am left to wonder if some of my pictures identified as Mallophora robber flies are actually Cephenemyia bot flies. Jeez Louise!

One fairly rare member of the genus Cephenemyia is the schwinehoont bot fly which exclusively parasitizes those humans also known as schwinehoonts on account of their uncanny resemblance to dog-pig hybrids. Here’s how the schwinehoont bot fly normally infests the hapless schwinehoont.

The schwinehoont must, first of all, be naked from the waist down and unwary. That’s because a wary schwinehoont might notice a bumblebee sized fly buzzing around its rectal or vaginal opening. But once an unwary host is selected, the female bot fly lays an egg or two near the vaginal or rectal opening of the host schwinehoont. The male schwinehoont bot fly, worn out from its recent copulatory antics, generally naps nearby.

Pretty soon the egg or eggs hatch out. Then the larval bot wriggler gradually worms or weasels its way up and into the beckoning orifice. Once inside, the bot wriggler, depending on its habitual circumstance, either attaches to a turd, or to an embryo. In the former instance, if it attaches to a turd, it gets shit out and happily lives in the turd until it has eaten up the entire turd. But then, after the bot wriggler has eaten up the turd, the bot wriggler undergoes a final metamorphosis. Once that final metamorphosis transpires, that individual is an adult, and ready to have its picture took. If the bot wriggler attaches to an embryo, it develops along with the embryonic schwinehoont. Once the baby schwinehoont emerges into the light of day, the bot fly wriggler has simultaneously undergone its final metamorphosis and is ready to assume its duties as the guardian angel to the young schwinehoont.

For a long time scientists speculated that but a single species of schwinehoont bot fly existed. But now, scientists surmise there may be at least three species of schwinehoont bot fly, only one of which actually, eventually produces any guardian angels

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