In one case the entrance of a cricket in the auditory canal was the cause of death.

Martin gives an instance in which larvae were deposited in the ear.

Stalpart van der Wiel relates an instance of the lodgment of a living spider in the ear.
Far more common than insects are inanimate objects as foreign bodies in the ear, and numerous examples are to be found in literature.

Fabricius Hildanus tells of a glass ball introduced into the auditory canal of a girl of ten, followed by headache, numbness on the left side, and after four or five years epileptic seizures, and atrophy of the arm.

He extracted it and the symptoms immediately ceased.