Narrator: For some bug babies, your body is home sweet home. Human botfly larvae, for example, burrow under your skin, forming a pus-filled pimple. Meanwhile, thousands of young Loa loa worms can ...

the two common flies that affect returning travelers from the tropics are Dermatobia hominis(the human botfly) and Cordylobia anthropophaga (the tumbu fly). [3] The larva stage of both species can ...

The larvae of botflies are parasites found in the flesh of mammals, often in the gut. Sometimes they arrive at the host by hitching a lift on a mosquito. When a mosquito feeds on you the botfly ...