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.

Upon returning from her honeymoon in Belize, a 36-year-old Florida woman noticed a lesion on her groin—which later turned out to be a human botfly larva that burrowed into her skin.

The larva of the human botfly (though not the one Florida doctors found under a newlywed’s skin) in the third and final stage of development that it takes inside a mammal’s body, according to ...

The human botfly, Dermatobia hominis, is the only species of botfly whose larvae ordinarily parasitize humans, though flies in some other families episodically infect humans." What’s this thing ...

Stock image of human botfly larvae. A woman who was traveling across South and Central America found two larvae inside a boil on her arm five weeks after returning home.

Human botfly (Dermatobia hominis). The human botfly lives in Central and South America. Adult human botflies resemble bumblebees and lay larvae in mammals’ skin, mouth, and other tissues.

The human botfly does not bite or lay its eggs on people, but enslaves smaller flies and mosquitoes by gluing its eggs to their bodies. When the slave bites a victim, the eggs hatch into larvae ...

At some point, a doctor suggested a human botfly infestation, and they attempted to extract the larvae with Vaseline. The approach works because it blocks the hole in which the larvae breathe ...

The human botfly, Dermatobia hominis, is the only species of botfly whose larvae ordinarily parasitize humans, though flies in some other families episodically infect humans." ...