It's a bug! Moth lays eggs in anchor’s ear during live broadcast

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Eitan Levine
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Bob Barnard’s ears are a little too cozy.

The Fox DC reporter was doing a piece on Museum Week in our nation’s capitol when an African Moon Moth decided to land on Barnard’s ear. The moth eventually left but not without leaving two souvenirs: moth eggs.

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That African Moon Moth on my ear on live TV laid two eggs! (Yuck) It's #MuseumWeek @NMNH @fox5newsdc pic.twitter.com/W6BSGKrRsR— Bob Barnard (@barnardfox5dc) March 23, 2015

Talk about quality reality television. That African Moon Moth decided that live on-air was as good a time as ever to go into nature’s quickest labor.

Mazal Tov!

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