The spider was successfully removed by doctors at a hospital in Taiwan. An image shows the spider (front) and its molted exoskeleton (back) inside the woman's ear. Liyin Weng and Tengchin Wang ...

Source Reference: Weng L, Wang T "A spider and its exoskeleton in the ear canal" N Engl J Med 2023; DOI: 10.1056/NEJMicm2307942. Share on Facebook. Opens in a new tab or window.

A 64-year-old woman went to a clinic after an “incessant” noise kept her awake for days. A doctor found a spider scurrying next to an exoskeleton it had shed.

Wang had seen insects — such as ants, moths and cockroaches — in people's ears before, but he'd never come across a spider that had shed its exoskeleton inside a person's ear canal, ...

The spider and exoskeleton were removed from the woman's ear using suction, after which her symptoms immediately stopped. The case report is published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

The cause turned out to be a small spider. A small spider in a 64-year-old woman's ear canal, next to its discarded exoskeleton. The New England Journal of Medicine ...

SHOCKING! Doctors find spider with exoskeleton in woman’s ear after complains of ‘rustling sounds’ The method of suction was used from a tube to take out the spider and its exoskeleton and ...

Scared of spiders? You might want to look away now. In a bizarre medical case, a woman in Taiwan got a nasty shock when doctors discovered a spider about 0.1 inch (0.25 centimeters) long crawling ...