BENGALURU: A live botfly larva was surgically removed from a woman’s scalp by doctors at a city hospital a few days ago. The 26-year-old woman, who works for a wildlife conservation NGO, approached ...

The New England Journal of Medicine, a medical journal, found a horrifying case in which more than 10 larvae of moving flies were removed from the eyes of a man who complained of itchy eyes after ...

Entomologist and wildlife photographer Piotr Naskrecki is not squeamish. He recently allowed two human bot fly larvae to grow to maturity under his skin and documented the process in a short film.

Bacon lovers traveling to Central America, the Caribbean, or parts of Africa, here’s one more reason to love bacon’s greasy goodness: it can help remove botfly larva. Last month, PBS’s NOVA program ...

An Instagram video shows a botfly being removed from a horse’s nasal cavity. The nasal botfly primarily chooses sheep and goats as hosts, and they only occasionally infest horses. These botflies ...

Doctors had to used forceps to physically remove more than a dozen fly larvae from a man’s eye. The 53-year-old patient had admitted himself to a hospital in France, complaining of an itching right ...

The 36-year-old woman (who hasn't been identified, because, duh), went on her honeymoon in Belize where everything went according to plan-until two months after she arrived back home and noticed ...

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