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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Unfortunately, the unwrapping happened on the top of his noggin. Carlton's scalp had become home to a human botfly larva, a spiny parasitic maggot that digs into living human flesh, feeds on the ...

You sick fuck. You totally did. Here’s something I’m personally really enjoying, and yet in a very real way has ruined my life – botfly larvae removal videos. Here’s my favourite.

Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based in London UK. Her focus is reporting on science, technology and healthcare. She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and the impacts of ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A San Gabriel boy was recovering Friday ...

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 ...