Narrator: For some bug babies, your body is home sweet home. Human botfly larvae, for example, burrow under your skin, forming a pus-filled pimple. Meanwhile, thousands of young Loa loa worms can ...

Compared with human bot fly larvae, for instance, NWS larvae are much smaller, with a tapered head and no black spines, ...

The larvae of botflies are parasites found in the flesh of mammals, often in the gut. Sometimes they arrive at the host by hitching a lift on a mosquito. When a mosquito feeds on you the botfly ...

For some bug babies, your body is home sweet home. Human botfly larvae, for example, burrow under your skin, forming a pus-filled pimple. Meanwhile, thousands of young Loa loa worms can travel ...

With the kitten wrapped in a towel and soothed by a vet nurse, the vet removed the botfly. They must be careful; otherwise, the larva could end up pushed further up the nasal passage or break in half.