Bot flies are not generally considered festive. This is especially true if you are a reindeer, which often have reindeer nasal bot flies, or snot bots, as they are affectionately known. The nasal bot ...

APPARENTLY everyone will soon have to take a definite stand on the question of how fast a male deer bot fly can go. This has for some months been the subject of a rather bitter controversy in ...

The parasite’s scientific name is Cuterebra emasculator, which, from its Latin roots, translates as skin-boring testicle remover. In 1856 Asa Fitch (the nation’s first professional entomologist) ...

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.

Say the word "warbles" in front of a bunch of Mississippi squirrel hunters and you'll probably get a lot of confused looks. Say the word "wolves" in front of those same people and most will cringe.

Most internal parasites of horses are worms, but bots are the larvae of a fly that needs a horse to complete its life cycle. This parasite spends most of its life fastened to the inside of the host ...