A video of a botfly larvae being extracted from a kitten's nostril has been watched more than 12 million times. Horrifying videos have emerged on TikTok recently showing removal of the parasites ...

Rarely, sheep bot fly larvae can enter the eye sockets of humans—as was the case with the 53-year old Frenchman—most likely in areas where people live in close proximity to livestock.

On Wednesday, doctors in France reported a rare case of tiny sheep bot fly larvae—aka maggots—infesting the outer surface of a man's eyeball. The small, spiky larvae were seen slithering ...

“In this case, the larvae were removed with forceps and identified as Oestrus ovis, also known as the sheep bot fly, which had presumably flown into the patient’s eye and deposited the larvae ...

The organisms were identified as sheep bot flies, or Oestrus ovis. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A man's itchy eye was ...

A bot fly larvae seen under a microscope (Credits: Getty Images/iStockphoto) Doctors had to used forceps to physically remove more than a dozen fly larvae from a man’s eye.

Bot flies lays 30 eggs in woman's eye. A PARASITIC fly that incubates its eggs by shooting them into the eyes of deer is infecting people. By. Mirror.co.uk. 00:00, 6 May 2011; ...

A cuterebra larvae from a bot fly had become embedded in Moose's neck Dr Matt McGlasson removed the parasite and one of his team adopted the kitten By DARREN BOYLE FOR MAILONLINE ...