Known to science as Dermatobia hominis, the human botfly can be found across Central and South America. A reasonably common ...

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 ...

So far it has racked up 26,000 views and multiple comments and general consensus on what looks like, as one user mused, ‘Mr. Hanky’ from South Park is, a botfly larva. What is botfly?

The larva was discovered to be that of a botfly. Botflies are parasitic flies that are native to the Americas. They are also known as warble insects, heel flies, and gadflies.

Myiasis is the invasion of a human or other domesticated vertebrate animal by fly larvae of the order Diptera. [1,2] Despite the presence of many species, the two common flies that affect ...

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 ...