A multivore insect, found in the tropics and subtropics, the salamander often lives in bark crevices, decaying saprophylls or under leaf litters, preferring damp and dark environments.
It is said that the animal will burrow into the human ear and cut off the human brain nerve, so that the host cannot feel threatened. The female salamander that lays eggs will attach herself to the human body through its claws. At midnight, when a person is asleep, the salamander will crawl into the human ear and drill into the human brain. The salamander will then carefully cut off the human cranial nerve so that the poor host cannot detect it. It lays thousands of eggs, and after 4 days, the larvae hatch and feed on soft brain tissue, by which time the host has gone completely insane and eventually dies horribly.
In fact, this is just a legend. Because this animal likes small spaces, and human ears are just in line with this characteristic. But in fact, this animal is the same as other animals, can not penetrate the human ear, but this legend has been passed down for thousands of years. So if this legend had always existed, people's horrors would not have disappeared.
The fact that salites multiply into the ears is just a rumor and has no scientific basis, for the following reasons:
1. Even the most ferocious insects can only bite through the human eardrum and soft tissues in the ear but will not enter the brain, because there are hard bones around the brain to protect. That is, the brain grows in a cavity surrounded by multiple pieces of bone.
2, this rumor is only derived from the English name of the salamander literally translated as "earworm", and the name of the earworm is because the wings of the salamander resemble human ears when fully open.
3, the nest of the salamander is generally under the stone or in the soil, it is impossible to drill into the body of the mammal, and the clips on their tails are only used for protection, predation, and mating.