Abstract
The author reports on 51 cases of complaints of living foreign bodies in the external ear canal, from his practising experience in the past 6 years. In 5 cases no foreign body was found, and the rest consisted of 23 cases of moths, 17 cases of Coleoptera, 3 cases of rice- insects, 1 case of a fly, 1 case of an ant, and 1 case of a bristletail. The author removed the insects after killing them with alcohol.
