When you come back from your honeymoon, you'll likely have a few souvenirs or two-but one Florida woman brought back something she definitely didn't want to keep: a baby fly that had burrowed into her ...

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 ...

A 36-year-old woman didn’t know what to make of the itchy skin lesion she found after a trip to Belize. After months of consultations, doctors determined that a maggot had burrowed under her skin — ...

The surgeon was correct: Doctors used local anesthesia and a 5 millimeter incision to remove the object beneath the woman’s skin, which was identified as a human botfly larva — essentially, a maggot — ...

A Florida woman will probably never forget her honeymoon in Belize, but not for the usual reasons. Instead, her trip was memorable because of a small souvenir she unknowingly brought back with her: a ...

This is an actual video of a botfly larva being pulled from a person's lip. This infection likely occurred after a botfly laid its eggs on a mosquito, which were then transferred to a human via a ...

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.

This video isn’t entirely new but recently went viral after people caught wind of the horror within this woman’s inflated lip. This poor lady, who must have felt dreadful in the days leading up to her ...

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 ...

The larva of the human botfly (though not the one Florida doctors found under a newlywed’s skin) in the third and final stage of development that it takes inside a mammal’s body, according to ...