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Deby Cassill, an integrative biologist and associate professor at the University of South Florida, told Newsweek that "this is definitely a botfly larvae," noting that "most are internal parasites ...

International Environment Day 2025 reflects on global progress, plastic pollution, and urgent environmental challenges that ...

Also known as warble flies, heel flies, and gadflies, their larvae use mammals as their host. When a botfly egg senses the warmth of a mammal, it hatches and then gains access to its host ...

A video of an unusual "gross" sighting captured in a grassy yard has gone viral on Reddit. The clip was shared by u/ImplicationOfDanger and has garnered more than 24,000 upvotes since it was ...

While one lappet hammers a hole in the wildebeest’s shoulder, the other excavates behind a sinus, in hopes of finding juicy botfly larvae. Sinews and skin snap. Now a white-backed rams its head ...

Examination of the larva following removal confirmed that it was a first-stage Oestrus ovis (sheep nasal botfly) larva. The patient started a two-week course of antibiotic and steroid eye drops, as ...

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with larva and pupa; Clubbed general (Stratiomys chameleon); Dark-winged fungus gnats (Sciara Thomae, or Sciaridae); Mosquito (Culex annulatus, or Culiseta annulata); Horse botfly (Gastrophilus equi, ...

A parasitic wasp forces its host to weave a special web for its own ends. On the evening that it will kill its orb-weaving spider host, the larva of the ichneumonid wasp Hymenoepimecis sp.