A 59-year-old man, apparently in good health, arrived for his routine colonoscopy appointment. Nothing indicated that the examination would hold a surprise.
When doctors advanced the camera to the transverse colon, there it was: a whole ladybug, later identified as Harmonia axyridis, the multicolored Asian species. No one expected to find an insect lodged in that corner of the human body 🐞
Specialists explain that swallowing insects without realizing it happens more often than we think, even while sleeping with our mouths open. What is unusual here is that it survived the journey so far inside. The rest of the examination was completely normal, and the man went home unaware that, for a few seconds, a little bug stole all the medical attention.
