Researcher Allows Sand Flea To Grow Inside Her Foot To Study It

sciencehabit writes "Marlene Thielecke came to Madagascar to study the sand flea, an insect that spends part of its life cycle burrowed into the human foot — but she wound up getting more intimate with the critter than she cared for. Months into her project, Thieleckewas bitten by a flea herself. She decided to make the best of it, by taking regular photographs and videos and keeping track of her observations. 'I thought it might be interesting' to watch what happened, she says. As it turns out, her experience may help resolve an question entomologists have debated foor decades: Where, exactly, does the sand flea have sex?"

Two months?

[egcagrac0]

It's amazing that Madagascar didn't close the borders in that time.

Re:Please remove this article at once.

[game kid]

On the contrary, it's the ultimate confidence booster. "If this goddamn flea from a big African island can get some ass-equivalent under some fool's crusty feet..."

Re:I have an question

[Titus Groan]

The foor is a little known keyboard elf that causes's typo, they like to live under spacebars as this allows them greater room to breed but it is not unknown for them to inhabit any key on a keyboard. They are a distant cousin of the Mouse-monkey that yanks your pointer to that link you really shouldn't have clicked - these are responsible for a large number of relationship breakups amongst humans.

Re:Pics or it didn't happen

[Anonymous Coward]

Somebody has a foot fetish.

Re:Pics or it didn't happen

[K. S. Kyosuke]

Only a fleating one...