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POM Judge & Official Non Gardener
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Buffalo, NY, USA
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She went to Belize and grew this thing in her head! Yikes! I've been there and they warned us to use "Off" on the side trip to a zoo deep in Belize! Really cool zoo - no cages!
YouTube - The Botfly in my Head |
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POM Judge & Official Non Gardener
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Buffalo, NY, USA
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Salamander
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: North Bergen / Cliffside Park New Jersey
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They're fairly common I think.
My sister had one pulled out of her leg when she got back home to Dublin having been traveling for a while. Quite unpleasant none the less. |
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The Bug Whisperer
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Monroe County, WV, USA
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The YouTube video was quite accurate in describing the life cycle of this interesting insect - see human bot fly - Dermatobia hominis Linnaeus, Jr.) for a more detailed account. A friend of mine also acquired one of these on a trip to Belize during the 1980s; he allowed it to develop (on his shoulder) so he could do a 'show and tell' at a monthly meeting of the Washington (D.C.) Entomological Society...
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POM Judge & Official Non Gardener
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Buffalo, NY, USA
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That's true dedication to the cause! Any chance he went to Belize hoping to catch one?
![]() And that page had good additional info and pics. Thanks! |
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Salamander
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: North Bergen / Cliffside Park New Jersey
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Curious George & UAOKA recipient
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Chapel Hill, NC
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That is one gross critter!
I had a patient when I was a resident in San Jose, CA, a homeless man who had been unconscious in a car for three days (but still alive, and he survived). He had fly maggots in multiple places in his scalp. I presume they weren't bot flies, which are Central and South American, but some related species perhaps. Suunto, is that sort of thing at all common in the US in the homeless population?
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The Bug Whisperer
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Monroe County, WV, USA
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WG Prize & Gift Coordinator
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Michigan
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The successful woman is the woman that had the chance and took it! A walk among the elusive Whitetail Deer |
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POM Judge & Official Non Gardener
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Buffalo, NY, USA
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We need a :Puke: smiley!
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Tags |
bot flies, botfly, dermatobia, flies, fly, fly larvae, gross, head, hominis, host, human, human bot fly, infest, infestation, larvae, linnaeus, maggot, maggots, myiasis, parasite, sarcophagidae |
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