When you come back from your honeymoon, you'll likely have a few souvenirs or two-but one Florida woman brought back something she definitely didn't want to keep: a baby fly that had burrowed into her ...

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.

A woman who had recently traveled through Central and South America discovered a botfly larva wriggling out of a sore on her arm five weeks later. According to the case study, published in the British ...

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 ...

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A Florida woman will probably never forget her honeymoon in Belize, but not for the usual reasons ...

This is an actual video of a botfly larva being pulled from a person's lip. This infection likely occurred after a botfly laid its eggs on a mosquito, which were then transferred to a human via a ...

Editor's Note: This is the second and last part of a series on the dangers naturalists encounter in the wild. It started out as just a small bump — a pimple — on the top of my daughter's head, a few ...