A video of an unusual "gross" sighting captured in a grassy yard has gone viral on Reddit. The clip was shared by u/ImplicationOfDanger and has garnered more than 24,000 upvotes since it was posted on ...
The insect lays its eggs on animals like flies or mosquitoes. Those insects become hosts, carrying the human botfly eggs to human skin — the warmth of which hatches the eggs into larvae, researchers ...
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.