The parasite’s scientific name is Cuterebra emasculator, which, from its Latin roots, translates as skin-boring testicle remover. In 1856 Asa Fitch (the nation’s first professional entomologist) ...

An entomologist at Harvard University has decided to let bot fly larvae grow inside his own skin and filmed the process by which the maggots crawled out of his skin two months later. It's not ...

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For many people, having a fly swoop into your eye is an inconsequential nuisance. But for a 10-year-old boy in Turkey, this left a litter of maggots to grow under his lid. The boy, who lives in Tatvan ...

Look in the mirror. Look closer. Is that pinkeye, or is something writhing around in there? Parasites have inspired some of the scariest cinematic monsters for a reason. There is tremendous shock ...

A 53-year-old man was found to have more than a dozen maggots in his eye following a spot of gardening, according to a medical case report. The individual from France presented to the emergency ...

The organisms were identified as sheep bot flies, or Oestrus ovis. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A man's itchy eye was due to ...