I hadn't heard that episode, but I just looked it up to see if it was about the same grad student I knew who did the same thing. Nope, someone else. I suppose raising a botfly must be fairly common among Entomologists who travel to tropical regions because who else has an adult botfly in their insect collections? Only the most badass of nerds, that's who. He said the worst part was having to listen to the maggot chewing right behind his ear while he was trying to go to sleep. He also told me a story that he knew of another grad student who apparently helped out a friend get revenge on an ex who cheated on him by sneaking him some ascaris worm eggs, which he proceeded to covertly dump into the cheating ex's cereal and leave. I'm not sure if this story is true, but the moral is apparently don't fuck with invertebrate biologists.
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