Horse bots. Woods Houghton. This is a little different subject than my normal newspaper articles, but my master’s degree is in veterinary parasitology so it is something I would like to talk about.

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 ...

Horse_ebooks was created by Jacob Bakkila and Thomas Bender, both employees of buzzfeed. They kept their secret identity to themselves for years, but they’ve finally come out.

@Horse_ebooks, the beloved Twitter account famous for spewing eerily poetic, nonsensical spam, has been run by humans who for years wrote tweets as if they were a bot. World Changing Ideas Awards ...

Fall brings cooler days, turning leaves and the arrival of bot flies. Beyond being unsightly and annoying, these tiny hitchhikers can pose a real health threat to your horse. Desirai Schild has ...

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