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 ...

Under your skin, a parasite could be eating you alive until it develops into this horrifying insect, the botfly. So what would happen if botflies infested your body? How would the larvae eat you alive ...

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 ...

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 ...

What has barbed hooks, lives in flesh, and can be removed with bacon? The human botfly, of course. I’m Anna Rothschild, and this is Gross Science. Human botflies, also called Dermatobia hominis, are ...