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.

It shows the kitten being held by professionals, as WhitJay, a veterinarian, captioned the footage: "Another cuterebra / bot fly larvae / warble extraction for you all!" ...

A man's itchy eye was due to more than a dozen fly larvae that were squirming around inside his peeper, according to a new report.

A PARASITIC fly that incubates its eggs by shooting them into the eyes of deer is infecting people. The bot fly, which usually targets elk in Sweden, is choosing humans instead to find homes for ...

The Chicago shelter had to keep the little one in an incubator in order to get her strong enough for eye surgery.

“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 ...

He had the right idea, because when his eye was examined, there were no scratches from the body spikes and fangs of bot fly larvae and maggots like the one above — yet.

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. The 53-year-old ...

The staff at East Greenbush Animal Hospital, scooped her up and brought her into the back. One of the techs said as soon as she saw the little hole and knew exactly what was going on, fly larvae ...