Study bot fly infestation on ground squirrels of course. Last summer, Cal State Fullerton biology and health science student Kim Conway joined biology professor Paul Stapp’s student-research lab ...

But it also features footage of a large, squirmy bot fly baby wriggling its way out of an entomologist's arm -- so, uh, fair warning. If you're desperate to give birth to a bot fly of your very ...

The nasal bot fly life cycle is a marvelous example of evolutionary WTF-ery. Adult reindeer bot flies look like harmless fluffy bees, and have a slight buzz to their flight. This fools an ...

Then the bumps started moving. A doctor found five active bot fly larvae living beneath the skin atop Dallas’ head. “I’d put my hand back there and feel them moving. I thought it was blood ...

But a parasite that can afflict them is especially troublesome — the tree squirrel bot fly larvae. Summer is the time when people may notice lesions or sacs on squirrels when they are rooting ...

They were later identified as being larvae from the species Oestrus ovis, otherwise known as the sheep bot fly. According to the authors of the study, a fly of this species had likely landed in or ...

On Wednesday, doctors in France reported a rare case of tiny sheep bot fly larvae—aka maggots—infesting the outer surface of a man's eyeball. The small, spiky larvae were seen slithering ...

On purpose. The bot fly is a relatively “friendly” parasite, according to Gil Wizen, the other bot fly host. “It does not transmit any diseases, does not cause any significant damage to the ...

Most internal parasites of horses are worms, but bots are the larvae of a fly that needs a horse to complete ... causing irritation to that lining. Bot larvae sometimes perforate the stomach ...