A 58-year-old woman in Greece appears to hold the record for growing a parasitic sheep bot fly in her nose the longest, ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A San Gabriel boy was recovering Friday ...

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.

Just in case you needed new material for your nightmares, here’s this real-life case report of a woman in Greece who literally sneezed out maggots. Doctors documented the spine-chilling sneeze this ...

This week on Dr. Jeff: Rocky Mountain Vet, a dog is rushed in for emergency surgery and a rabbit has some Bot Fly larvae growing inside it. Some growths on the neck of a family pet have ruptured and ...

CARBONDALE – For five weeks, five botflies found a home in Aaron Dallas’ head. “It was weird and traumatic,” said Dallas, of Carbondale. Not to mention painful, he said. “I would get this pain that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...