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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

RoboBee, a bot with shiny, flapping wings and four pinlike legs, is the first of its size that can fly, perch on a surface and then take off again. This energy-saving feat could one day extend ...

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 ...

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 ...