This is the moment medics discovered a real-time crawler creeping through a lady’s ear canal after she went to hospital grumbling of itching and a ‘painful discomfort’:

The pet is believed to have actually been living in its cozy and also damp new ‘den’ for at the very least a week till its host, a pensioner, looked for medical attention at Mianyang Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Sichuan district in south-western China.

Doctor Liu detected a ball of silk in the female’s ear canal and advised she be offered an otoscopy, which disclosed that an online crawler had been living within.

The patient’s ear, which had actually thankfully not been harmed by the crawler, was cleaned up with a saline option, the medic claimed.

Doctor Liu spotted a ball of silk in the woman’s ear canal and recommended she be given an otoscopy, which revealed that a live spider had been living inside.

Footage of the procedure shows the spider appearing to be startled by the medic’s light, emerging from behind its web and scrambling to protect itself from the medical equipment.

Doctor Liu paralysed the spider with a chemical ear drops and removed it with tweezers a minute later.

The patient’s ear, which had fortunately not been damaged by the spider, was cleaned with a saline solution, the medic said.

The pensioner said the spider likely crawled into her ear while she was working on a vineyard one week ago. This just gets worse and worse…

Doctor Liu said: “It was fortunate [sic] that the spider was small and didn’t rupture her eardrum, otherwise she might have suffered hearing loss.

“It’s not common for small insects or animals to be found inside the ear, but this wasn’t an isolated case either. I once treated a patient whose ear had been invaded by an insect which later laid eggs.

“Personal hygiene is the key to preventing this. But should an insect enter your ear, do not try to remove it by yourself. Always seek medical attention.”

Last year, a web designer who thought he was suffering from vertigo and earache discovered a spider had crawled into his lug hole during the night.

Liam Gomez, 27, who had earlier disturbed a nest full of baby spiders in his doorway, woke with a blocked ear, felt dizzy and unbalanced and could hear a faint scratching in his head.

He applied olive oil to ease it and was horrified to see a spider’s leg stuck to the end of the cotton bud. Uh oh.

Liam, who has now vowed to sleep wearing earmuffs, then spent the next hour extracting the spider – in bits.

Self-professed arachnophobe Liam, from Folkestone, Kent, was happy ‘just to get the bloody thing out of me’ – and is relieved his hearing is back to normal.