A U.K. woman who complained of general illnesses and itchy raised lesions on her scalp after a trip to Argentina likely never guessed her symptoms were stemming from wriggling botfly larvae that were ...

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A WOMAN with an itchy scalp was left horrified when she discovered botfly larvae had burrowed in her head. The British woman, aged in her 50s, had started to feel unwell after getting back from a trip ...

CARBONDALE – For five weeks, five botflies found a home in Aaron Dallas’ head. “It was weird and traumatic,” said Dallas, of Carbondale. Not to mention painful, he said. “I would get this pain that ...

A WOMAN with an itchy scalp was left horrified when she discovered botfly larvae had burrowed in her head. The British woman, aged in her 50s, had started to feel unwell after getting back from a trip ...

BENGALURU: A live botfly larva was surgically removed from a woman’s scalp by doctors at a city hospital a few days ago. The 26-year-old woman, who works for a wildlife conservation NGO, approached ...

In last week's column we discussed reasons you might want to keep your cat strictly indoors. Well, here is another one: the Cuterebra botfly. Cuterebra is a type of botfly that lays its eggs around ...

Entomologist and wildlife photographer Piotr Naskrecki is not squeamish. He recently allowed two human bot fly larvae to grow to maturity under his skin and documented the process in a short film.

The Atlantic Wildlife Institute has been busy removing parasites from animals the last few weeks like one poor chipmunk that became a burrow for a botfly. Pam Novak, the institute's director, said ...

This week on Dr. Jeff: Rocky Mountain Vet, a dog is rushed in for emergency surgery and a rabbit has some Bot Fly larvae growing inside it. Some growths on the neck of a family pet have ruptured and ...

Every traveler's nightmare came true for Bryan Williams and Ally Vaag, two Australians vacationing in South America, when they made a gruesome discovery: Flesh-eating maggots were growing under their ...