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.

SAN GABRIEL >> Andrew Rindone is the “Bot-man.”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 ...

The human botfly does not bite or lay its eggs on people, but enslaves smaller flies and mosquitoes by gluing its eggs to their bodies. When the slave bites a victim, the eggs hatch into larvae ...

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 ...

At some point, a doctor suggested a human botfly infestation, and they attempted to extract the larvae with Vaseline. The approach works because it blocks the hole in which the larvae breathe ...

At left is the lesion created by a human botfly larva (Dermatobia hominid) in order to breathe.Inside was the deeply embedded maggot with rows of spines to prevent the host from removing it easily.

Botfly larvae (the wingless, immature forms of the insects) can burrow into human skin, essentially carving out a haven where they can grow and develop into adults.

Once the larva has grown into an adult, it drops to the ground, forms a sac-like structure, and then emerges from this sac 27 and 78 days later as an adult botfly. Doesn't this make you feel warm ...

It started out as just a small bump — a pimple — on the top of my daughter's head, a few weeks after our family returned from a trip to Belize.

TAMPA, Fla.— A Florida women went on her honeymoon in Central America and came back with more than just memories. Doctors at Memorial Hospital of Tampa said they discovered a human botfly larva ...

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