You think you’ve seen it all as a hunter. Gut-shot messes, engorged-tick infestations, predator-shredded carcasses. You’ve been elbows-deep in a chest cavity, severing a windpipe while pink foam oozes ...

The larva of the human botfly (though not the one Florida doctors found under a newlywed’s skin) in the third and final stage of development that it takes inside a mammal’s body, according to ...

(CBS) Ever wonder about all the random terrible things that could happen to you? Have your body invaded by a botfly. Botflies aren't easily confused with common houseflies - they're hairy and about ...

Nota bene: This week’s creature is a spine-covered parasitic larva that burrows into living human beings, feeding on their flesh and growing positively plump. Some descriptions here might be hard to ...

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 TikTok ...

Mina Shenouda, MD, et al/Journal Investig Med High Case Rep./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 ...

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 were ...

The black spots seen on rabbits may be warbles, which are caused by the botfly – not usually fatal, but they don't look pleasant and can be a little gross to hear about.

This article was taken from the November 2013 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by ...

The deer botfly (Cephenomyia pratti Hunter) is a small, blunt-headed insect which sprays its eggs into the nostrils and throats of deer, scattering them like tiny bombs while on the wing. In ...