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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Gee Family, also known as The Bucket List Family on Instagram, shared the terrifying video of a worm being pulled from their ...

Botflies are flies from the family Oestridae and have the appearance of a bee. Also known as warble flies, heel flies, and gadflies, their larvae use mammals as their host. When a botfly egg senses ...

Watching this horrifying video clip of a botfly emerging from a dead rodent’s body may put you off them for life! But if you ...

The New England Journal of Medicine, a medical journal, found a horrifying case in which more than 10 larvae of moving flies were removed from the eyes of a man who complained of itchy eyes after ...

In last week's column we discussed reasons you might want to keep your cat strictly indoors. Well, here is another one: the Cuterebra botfly. Cuterebra is a type of botfly that lays its eggs around ...

Myiasis is the invasion of a human or other domesticated vertebrate animal by fly larvae of the order Diptera. [1,2] Despite the presence of many species, the two common flies that affect returning ...

Oral myiasis, a rare parasitic infestation, occurs when fly larvae invade mouth tissues due to poor hygiene, wounds, or weakened immunity. Primarily found in tropical regions, it causes pain, swelling ...