Doctors thought the strange, bleeding bumps on Aaron Dallas’ head might be from gnat bites or shingles. Then the bumps started moving. A doctor found five active bot fly larvae living beneath the skin ...

CARBONDALE, Colo. — Doctors thought the strange, bleeding bumps on Aaron Dallas’ head might be from gnat bites or shingles. The bumps then started moving. A doctor found five active bot fly larvae ...

Sometimes entomologists get up close and personal with the bugs they study. And sometimes they incubate bot flies in their own arms until the parasites burst out of their skin a la the movie "Alien." ...

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) ...

Long talk story about the bot fly, and Dr. Townsend-Dr. Langmuir controversy as to its speed. Dr. Townsend,a specialist in the study of Diptera (flies, gnats, and mosquitoes), first published his ...