Bot flies are not generally considered festive. This is especially true if you are a reindeer, which often have reindeer nasal bot flies, or snot bots, as they are affectionately known. The nasal bot ...

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) ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The energy and nutrient demands of parasites on their hosts are frequently invoked as an explanation for negative impacts of parasitism on ...

An entomologist at Harvard University has decided to let bot fly larvae grow inside his own skin and filmed the process by which the maggots crawled out of his skin two months later. It's not ...

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.

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Factors that affect movement of small mammals include vegetation structure, resource distribution, interspecific interactions and parasitism. The objective of this study was to assess the effect of ...

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 ...