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* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'': The first Interdimensional Cable episode features a commercial by "Ants in my Eyes Johnson." No points for guessing what he's infested with.

* ''ComicBook/RedRobin'': Sac is crawling with spider like creatures which he can control, and infest other people with giving him control over the victim who is then killed when he's done and the creatures crawl their way out through their flesh.

* ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'': Duane is fighting a constant loosing battle against the maggots and beetles that are eating his decaying flesh.

** [[https://bogleech.com/mortasheen/mongrunge Mongrunge]] is a doglike creature mostly comprised of bones, with millions of fleas making up its other tissues. It's known to lie down and die of greif if all its fleas are killed.
** [[https://bogleech.com/mortasheen/scabberant Scabberant]] is a small humanoid with a mantle made up of its hypertrophied scalp, and is infested with scabies that range from "microscopic to nearly pea-sized". These mites are a potent defensive and offensive weapon, and also compose some of its immune system. Uniquely, while they also will lie down and die if all their mites are killed (of terror instead of greif), they will actually help their denuded fellows regain their symbiotes if they find them in time.
** [[https://bogleech.com/mortasheen/snagnant Snagnant]] is a plantlike monster with recesses and hollows filled with a liquid absolutely perfect for ''Anopheles'' mosquitoes, who give the creature's prey malaria when they bite them. The mosquitoes themselves often attract frogs and bats, who make themselves at home within the Snagnant. This is how it got its nickname of "The Wandering Swamp".

** Swarmlings are a subclass of [[https://bogleech.com/mortasheen#classzom Zombie Spawn]] ("naturally born" zombies, as opposed to turned humans) who live in symbiosis with carrion-eating insects; utilizing them as replacements for a digestive system and/or other organ or limb. They can weaponize these ravenous parasites by spitting them out and telepathically commanding the resultant swarm.

** The Blood Substitution mutation grants various kinds of AlienBlood, including swarms of poisonous insects, burrowing leeches or worms, mice, and even birds. The infestation [[BloodyMurder sprays onto attackers]] when the mutant is wounded.

A PrimalFear, especially for those with [[SpidersAreScary arachnophobia]] or entomophobia or any number of other phobias: This man is absolutely FILLED with creatures. Be it [[{{Beelzebub}} flies]], [[BeeAfraid bees]], [[SpiderSwarm spiders]], [[MessyMaggots maggots]], a HordeOfAlienLocusts or whatever mass of creepy crawlies you can imagine, this man is infested with them. If you attack this guy, bugs will probably fly out of his wound. It could be a parasitic relationship where the host is nothing more than a hive, or perhaps a symbiotic one where the host benefits from the bugs' presence. In the second case, the "residents" will often swarm out of their host to protect them from attack. In some instances, the host may be a PestController explicitly capable of controlling and directing the creatures residing inside of them.

* ''Anime/NinjaScroll'': One of the villains is a hunchbacked old man, who turns out to have a hive of wasps living in the hump on his back and follows his commands.

* ''ComicBook/ImmortalIronFist'': The character "The Bride of Nine Spiders", when she lifts up her stripperiffic top, reveals that her chest is a mass of rotted, webbed flesh swarming with spiders that she can use to ZergRush her enemies. She's an unusual DarkIsNotEvil example of this, as she's a neutral-to-good PerkyGoth. Still not somebody to upset, though.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' fanfic ''[[https://www.deviantart.com/mrtyedye/art/Fanfic-Boo-Haunted-House-895869959 Boo! Haunted House]]'', when Lori asks what's "gotten into" Luan, Luna says, "The real question you should be asking is... what's gotten into ''me''?" and vomits up a whole lot of bugs. [[spoiler:Subverted, since it later turns out to have been AllJustAPrank, and WordOfGod reveals that it wasn't even the real Luna; it was an animatronic.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'': It's unclear if Oogie Boogie is a sentient burlap sack filled with bugs, or [[TheWormThatWalks if Oogie is the bugs themselves and the sack is just something they use to appear relatively humanoid.]]

* ''Film/{{Slither}}'': After Grant infects her with [[BigBad The Long One's embryos]], Brenda's body swells like a balloon as they grow inside her. Then, [[NauseaFuel she explodes, showering the protagonists with thousands of slugs.]]

* ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasyRoleplay'' 2nd Edition: The ''Tome of Corruption'' has several {{Muta|nts}}tion options to this effect:

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* ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'': Sakura Matou's body is infested with penis-like worms because of her abusive adopted grandfather, Zouken.
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* ''VideoGame/Bioshock1'': The Insect Swarm plasmid causes the player character to become one of these, able to store killer hornets in his body (which turns into a hive-like structure) and then have them home in on enemies.

* ''Franchise/FateSeries'': The Matou clan make up for their diminishing magical potential by having mana circuit-enhancing "Crest Worms" infest their bodies. The process is extremely violating, and both Kariya and Sakura were subjugated to it.

* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'': The Pain of the COBRA Unit is a "Hornet Soldier." He was infected with a parasite that caused him to secrete insect pheromones, giving him control over insects, especially bees. He has bees to use in combat that he stores in his clothes and body.
* ''VideoGame/{{Mewgenics}}'': The Mangey enemy type is a [[LongRangeFighter long-ranged foe]] whose spit shots can [[PoisonousPerson inflict poison]], but the main trait they possess is a huge amount of maggots infesting their entire bodies, [[EnemySummoner who fall out and join the fight whenever their host gets damaged.]] It looks the part too, being diseased and half-rotten.

* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'': Osmond Saddler, leader of Los Illumanados, has made it so nearly every character in the entire game is this. Las Plagas are a parasite that Saddler can use to control those infested. [[spoiler:By the end of the game, the Plagas have infested him so much that they've taken over his brain and reduced his plan to nothing more than "infest more people with Las Plagas."]]
* ''VideoGame/StarCraft'': Infested Terrans are, well, infested by the Zerg, who have altered their biochemistry to the point that they become [[ActionBomb violently explosive.]] The concept art shows them to be so chock full of alien parasites that they're bursting out of their spacesuits.

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** [[https://bogleech.com/mortasheen/scabberant Scabberant]] is a small humanoid with a mantle made up of its hypertrophied scalp, and is infested with scabies that range from "microscopic to nearly pea-sized." These mites are a potent defensive and offensive weapon, and also compose some of its immune system. Uniquely, while they also will lie down and die if all their mites are killed (of terror instead of greif), they will actually help their denuded fellows regain their symbiotes if they find them in time.
** [[https://bogleech.com/mortasheen/snagnant Snagnant]] is a plantlike monster with recesses and hollows filled with a liquid absolutely perfect for ''Anopheles'' mosquitoes, who give the creature's prey malaria when they bite them. The mosquitoes themselves often attract frogs and bats, who make themselves at home within the Snagnant. This is how it got its nickname of "The Wandering Swamp."

* ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasyRoleplay'': The Swarm of Flies mutation, one of the mutation options in the 2E ''Tome of Corruption'', causes a swarm of horseflies -- or cockroaches, beetles, termites, or whatever else -- to decide that the mutant is a perfect host and make themselves at home in their nose and mouth, emerging in an angry, biting cloud if their new home is threatened. The insects themselves have human heads and hands, and weep piteously if separated from their home and swarm.

** [[https://bogleech.com/mortasheen/snagnant Snagnant]] is a plantlike monster with recesses and hollows filled with a liquid absolutely perfect for ''Anopheles'' mosquitoes, who give the creature's prey malaria when they bite them. The mosquitoes themselves often attract frogs and bats, who make themselves at home within the Snagnant.

** [[https://bogleech.com/mortasheen#classwor Wormbrains]] are an entire Type of monster comprised of a mindless (or near-mindless), human-descended host and a number of specialized "brain fluke" parasites.

** [[https://bogleech.com/mortasheen/zeelzebuz Zeelzebuz]] is a zombie colonized by a swarm of carrion-eating bees, of a type that favors zombies as nesting sites. If they inhabit a sufficiently young and undeveloped zombie, the colony will warp its growth pattern so that its arms and ribs grow into an open cage around its lungs, which become a natural honeycombed nest. It subsists entirely on the flesh-based "honey" made by its symbionts, searches out fresh carrion for them to feed on, and can send them out in its defense by rattling its tail against its ribs.

** :[[https://bogleech.com/mortasheen/buzzilisk Buzzilisk]] is a lizard with twin beehives where its eyes should be. These bees act as both digestive system and sense-organs.

* ''Website/{{Mortasheen}}'': Plenty of the morbid monsters serve as living hives to smaller vermin:

* ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight": Sakura Matou's body is infested with penis-like worms because of her abusive adopted grandfather, Zouken.

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* ''Franchise/GarbagePailKids'': The Itchy Richie/Bugged Bert card depicts a baby covered in black bugs emerging from a slit on his leg.
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* ''TabletopGame/HunterTheVigil'': One of the implants used by the Cheiron Group is a swarm of man-faced hornets that live in their host's arm and fly out to attack when their host becomes angry at something.
* ''TabletopGame/VampireTheRequiem'': The Melissidae [[VampireVarietyPack vampire bloodline]] can learn to shelter swarms of bees or wasps within their bodies as part of their HiveQueen-themed powers. They can control and enhance the insects, but, for obvious reasons, can't [[HumanDisguise pretend to be living humans]] while using their lungs as beehives.

** Spawn of Kyuss are undead who are infested with worms that they can weaponise in combat.

* ''TabletopGame/HunterTheVigil'': One of the implants used by the Cheiron Group is a swarm of man-faced hornets that live in their host's arm and fly out to attack when their host becomes angry at something.

* ''TabletopGame/VampireTheRequiem'': The Melissidae [[VampireVarietyPack vampire bloodline]] can learn to shelter swarms of bees or wasps within their bodies as part of their HiveQueen-themed powers. They can control and enhance the insects, but, for obvious reasons, can't [[HumanDisguise pretend to be living humans]] while using their lungs as beehives.

* ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasyRoleplay'': The Swarm of Flies mutation, one of the mutation options in the 2E ''Tome of Corruption'', causes a swarm of horseflies -- or cockroaches, beetles, termites, or whatever else -- to decide that the mutant is a perfect host and make themselves at home in their nose and mouth, emerging in an angry, biting cloud if their new home is threatened. The insects themselves have human heads and hands, and weep piteously is separated from their home and swarm.

A PrimalFear, especially for those with [[SpidersAreScary arachnophobia]] or emetophobia or any number of other phobias: This man is absolutely FILLED with creatures. Be it [[{{Beelzebub}} flies]], [[BeeAfraid bees]], [[SpiderSwarm spiders]], [[MessyMaggots maggots]], a HordeOfAlienLocusts or whatever mass of creepy crawlies you can imagine, this man is infested with them. If you attack this guy, bugs will probably fly out of his wound. It could be a parasitic relationship where the host is nothing more than a hive, or perhaps a symbiotic one where the host benefits from the bugs' presence. In the second case, the "residents" will often swarm out of their host to protect them from attack. In some instances, the host may be a PestController explicitly capable of controlling and directing the creatures residing inside of them.

* ''VideoGame/StarCraft'': Infested Terrans are, well, infested by the Zerg, who have altered their biochemistry to the point that they become [[ActionBomb violently explosive.]] The concept art shows them to be so chockful of alien parasites that they're bursting out of their spacesuits.

* ''Literature/ScaryStoriesToTellInTheDark'': In the short story "The Red Spot", a girl develops a red bump on her face. She doesn't know what it is, her family can't figure it out, and even a doctor they bring in can't work it out. The whole time the bump is just growing and itching. At the end, red bump suddenly bursts while the girl is taking a bath, a swarm of small spiders crawling out from where their mother had laid eggs in her cheek.