While there are plenty of beautiful sights in nature, occurrences in the animal kingdom can also be downright nasty. One such ...

You think you’ve seen it all as a hunter. Gut-shot messes, engorged-tick infestations, predator-shredded carcasses. You’ve been elbows-deep in a chest cavity, severing a windpipe while pink foam oozes ...

The larva of the human botfly (though not the one Florida doctors found under a newlywed’s skin) in the third and final stage of development that it takes inside a mammal’s body, according to ...

(CBS) Ever wonder about all the random terrible things that could happen to you? Have your body invaded by a botfly. Botflies aren't easily confused with common houseflies - they're hairy and about ...

The deer botfly (Cephenomyia pratti Hunter) is a small, blunt-headed insect which sprays its eggs into the nostrils and throats of deer, scattering them like tiny bombs while on the wing. In ...

A dog owner has racked up over 36 million views after showing her at-home removal process of a botfly larva that burrowed into her 14-year-old Yorkshire Terrier. Most of Christina Curtis-Bon's TikTok ...

A 36-year-old Florida woman returned from a short trip to Belize with a stomach-churning souvenir: A fly larva burrowed underneath the surface of her skin. The woman's story was detailed in a report ...