Bot flies have gained infamy in the age of YouTube ... They usually do this by laying their eggs on mosquitoes that drop the eggs mid-drink, but they'll even leave eggs on foliage in a pinch ...

The fly doesn't lay eggs on the reindeer. Oh no, it is far more sinister than that. Reindeer snot bot eggs hatch within the mother's uterus. Then she hovers in the air, squirting tiny maggots into ...

He recently allowed two human bot fly larvae to grow to maturity under ... The adult females typically lay their eggs on exoparasites such as ticks and mosquitoes and these hatch whilst still ...

The site adds that the a bot fly had entered her lip and laid eggs, and the larvae from the eggs began growing in her mouth. A doctor can be seen wiggling the parasite in an effort to slowly coax it ...

It seems likely the castrating bot fly tale shares some level of kinship ... after which the female lays a thousand or so tiny eggs on leaves and twigs in their hosts’ wooded habitat.

To get her babies to a food source, the female bot fly latches onto a blood-sucking insect like a mosquito. Then she attaches her fertilized eggs to the mosquito’s abdomen and lets the mosquito ...

Most internal parasites of horses are worms, but bots are the larvae of a fly that needs a horse to complete ... causing irritation to that lining. Bot larvae sometimes perforate the stomach ...

Because of this, they are seldom seen. Other flies in the same family lay their eggs in the facial fur of their hosts, and the unsuspecting animals ingest the eggs while grooming. It was thought that ...