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  2. Botfly - Wikipedia

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    Botflies, also known as warble flies, heel flies, and gadflies, are flies of the family Oestridae. Their larvae are internal parasites of mammals, some species growing in the host's flesh and others within the gut. Dermatobia hominis is the only species of botfly known to parasitize humans routinely, though other species of flies cause myiasis ...

  3. Gasterophilus - Wikipedia

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    Gasterophilus, commonly known as botfly, is a genus of parasitic fly from the family Oestridae that affects different types of animals, especially horses, but it can also act on cows, sheep, and goats. A case has also been recorded in a human baby.

  4. Dermatobia hominis - Wikipedia

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    The human botfly, Dermatobia hominis (Greek δέρμα, skin + βίος, life, and Latin hominis, of a human), is a species of botfly whose larvae parasitise humans (in addition to a wide range of other animals, including other primates [1]).

  5. Cuterebra fontinella - Wikipedia

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    Cuterebra fontinella, the mouse bot fly, is a species of New World skin bot fly in the family Oestridae. C. fontinella is typically around 1 cm (0.39 in) in length with a black and yellow color pattern. [2] C. fontinella develops by parasitizing nutrients from its host, typically the white-footed mouse.

  6. Oestroidea - Wikipedia

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    Oestroidea is a superfamily of Calyptratae including the blow flies, bot flies, flesh flies, and their relatives. [1] [2] It occurs worldwide and has about 15,000 described species. [3] The superfamily includes the families: Calliphoridae; Mesembrinellidae (formerly included in Calliphoridae) Mystacinobiidae; Oestridae

  7. The 10 most unsafe states to live in, ranked

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    A September report by the South Carolina Fraternal Order of Police found that the state also saw a 5.8% decrease in violent crime from 2022 to 2023. 9. Georgia. Piedmont Park in Atlanta.

  8. Deer botfly - Wikipedia

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    Aristotle (384 BC–322 BC) described deer botfly larvae [3] as follows: However, without any exception, stags are found to have maggots living inside the head, and the habitat of these creatures is in the hollow underneath the root of the tongue and in the neighbourhood of the vertebra to which the head is attached.

  9. Weight loss may be helped by drinking this, study suggests - AOL

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    In analyzing a study from 2004, the team found that carbonated water may support weight loss by converting to HCO3 – a byproduct of metabolism – in red blood cells and increasing energy ...