A dog owner has racked up over 36 million views after showing her at-home removal process of a botfly larva that burrowed into her 14-year-old Yorkshire Terrier. Most of Christina Curtis-Bon's ...

A nasal botfly larva lodged in the nostril of a recently-killed spike buck. Natalie Krebs You think you’ve seen it all as a hunter. Gut-shot messes, engorged-tick infestations, predator-shredded ...

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 ...

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American Federation for Medical Research/CC by 4.0 A 36-year-old Florida woman discovered that she had a human botfly larva living under her skin following a trip to Belize. The woman, who ...

It’s a nickname the 7-year-old San Gabriel resident gave himself after a botfly larva latched onto his scalp and burrowed inside his head during a trip to Costa Rica with his parents last month.

"WARNING this video includes worms and is NOT for the faint of heart," wrote The Bucket List Family mom Jessica, in an Instagram post showing the video of her husband slowly pulling a botfly larva ...

The bodies of flesh fly larvae grow darker as they progress through pupal development. Human botfly larvae are commonly known as white maggots. Their appearance evolves as the larvae move through ...

The Gee Family, also known as The Bucket List Family on Instagram, shared the terrifying video of a worm being pulled from their toddler's head TheBucketListFamily/Instagram Garrett Gee pulls botfly ...