A plague of flesh-eating bugs is munching on people's feet in California
"It was painful! I was like uh! I jumped out of the water and this was so shocking. I had blood all over my foot and in between my toes," Tara Sauvage told CBS8.Stock image of a marine isopod. Excirolana chiltoni, a tiny species of marine isopod, has been biting people's feet in the shallows of California beaches, drawing blood.Excirolana chiltoni
, which live in the shallow waters of the Pacific Ocean and seasonally migrate up and down the coast.that live in the ocean and in very shallow waters all the way up to Alaska and Japan. They are totally known to bite people. They really hang out in the water. They like to eat fresh meat like a dying animal or battered animal," Ryan Hechinger, a professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, told CB8.are tiny, only growing to around 0.3 inches long.
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