BENGALURU: A live botfly larva was surgically removed from a woman’s scalp by doctors at a city hospital a few days ago. The 26-year-old woman, who works for a wildlife conservation NGO, approached ...

It’s a nickname the 7-year-old San Gabriel resident gave himself after a botfly larva latched onto his scalp and burrowed inside his head during a trip to Costa Rica with his parents last month. “It ...

The 36-year-old woman (who hasn't been identified, because, duh), went on her honeymoon in Belize where everything went according to plan-until two months after she arrived back home and noticed ...

In a recent issue of BMJ Case Reports, doctors with Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and the University of Sheffield detailed a medical mystery that makes one's skin crawl. Soon after ...

While there are plenty of beautiful sights in nature, occurrences in the animal kingdom can also be downright nasty. One such example can be seen in the Instagram post by @natureuncharted. In the ...

A U.K. woman who complained of general illnesses and itchy raised lesions on her scalp after a trip to Argentina likely never guessed her symptoms were stemming from wriggling botfly larvae that were ...

Bacon lovers traveling to Central America, the Caribbean, or parts of Africa, here’s one more reason to love bacon’s greasy goodness: it can help remove botfly larva. Last month, PBS’s NOVA program ...

An Instagram video shows a botfly being removed from a horse’s nasal cavity. The nasal botfly primarily chooses sheep and goats as hosts, and they only occasionally infest horses. These botflies ...