APPARENTLY everyone will soon have to take a definite stand on the question of how fast a male deer bot fly can go. This has for some months been the subject of a rather bitter controversy in ...

What does a student who has an interest in research, parasites, diseases and infections do? Study bot fly infestation on ground squirrels of course. Last summer, Cal State Fullerton biology and health ...

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 ...

A video of a woman having a bot fly larvae removed from her lip has gone viral on YouTube. According to the Inquisitr, the woman finally decided to visit the doctor after a swelling in her lip just ...

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 ...

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.

What looked like a pimple or an insect bite on Jessica and Garrett Gee's toddler's head during a trip to Botswana turned out to be far more invasive. "WARNING this video includes worms and is NOT for ...