The article doesn't state the obvious: If it does crawl into your nose tonight while you're sleeping, it can't back out, it has to keep going forward. It will find an exit usually through an ear canal. The whole process takes about two weeks during which the patient will be subjected to excruciatingly intense pain that cannot be dulled by any known pharmaceuticals. After the insect exits the aural canal a thorough examination must be performed to determine if it deposited a cluster of eggs. If it did the whole process starts over.

After the insect exits the aural canal a thorough examination must be performed to determine if it deposited a cluster of eggs.

I hope it's not like the rabies test where they chop up your brain.

zerkalo: Seeing as I has first world problems, namely my retard housemates will wake me up after I have like 6 hours sleep, and I don't sleep on the ground in Africa, I am not fearing this at all

Also 10 minutes to kill ONE termite. It would have to be a freakin' BIG ant to pose a threat to a human. Bigger than my nose, at any rate.

The last paragraph articulated what I wanted to say. If we can eliminate the "attract fellow ants" chemical from the mix, we might have a great combination termite insecticide / ant repellent to use.