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. “It ...

Under your skin, a parasite could be eating you alive until it develops into this horrifying insect, the botfly. So what would happen if botflies infested your body? How would the larvae eat you alive ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Gee Family, also known as The Bucket List Family on Instagram, shared the terrifying video of a worm being pulled from their ...

CARBONDALE ” For five weeks, five botflies found a home in Aaron Dallas’ head. “It was weird and traumatic,” said Dallas, of Carbondale. Not to mention painful, he said. “I would get this pain that ...

As we did with Ms. W, removal is often accomplished under local anesthesia with a simple cruciate incision and extraction of the larva by gentle traction. 1 Surgical excision of the entire lesion, ...

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 ...

A bride who spent her honeymoon in Belize returned to her Florida home with more than just lovely memories of Mayan ruins and crystal-clear Caribbean lagoons. Little did she know that she had picked ...

What has barbed hooks, lives in flesh, and can be removed with bacon? The human botfly, of course. I’m Anna Rothschild, and this is Gross Science. Human botflies, also called Dermatobia hominis, are ...