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 ...

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 ...

An Instagram video shows a botfly being removed from a horse’s nasal cavity. The nasal botfly primarily chooses sheep and goats as hosts, and they only occasionally infest horses. These botflies ...

The 36-year-old woman (who hasn't been identified, because, duh), went on her honeymoon in Belize where everything went according to plan-until two months after she arrived back home and noticed ...

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 ...

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 ...

Most internal parasites of horses are worms, but bots are the larvae of a fly that needs a horse to complete its life cycle. This parasite spends most of its life fastened to the inside of the host ...

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 ...