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Cochliomyia hominivorax, the New World screwworm fly, or simply screwworm or screw-worm, is a species of parasitic fly that is well known for the way in which its larvae (maggots) eat the living tissue of warm-blooded animals. It is present in the New World tropics.
Gongylonema pulchrum was first named and presented with its own species by Molin in 1857. The first reported case was in 1850 by Dr. Joseph Leidy, when he identified a worm "obtained from the mouth of a child" from the Philadelphia Academy (however, an earlier case may have been treated in patient Elizabeth Livingstone in the seventeenth century [2]).
All species in the family Calliphoridae have bristles on their merones, plumose arista, and well-developed calypters. Both C. macellaria and C. hominivorax are metallic green to bluish green in major coloration, with setae on the dorsal surface of the stem vein, orange gena , pale white anterior spiracles , filiform palps , and three black ...
Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have made major headway in understanding a strange and elusive species of snake-like worm. These 'Dune'-like worms are tiny but act more like ...
Some species of hammerhead worms produce a type of neurotoxin called tetrofotoxin to hunt creatures such as earthworms. They will paralyze a worm with the neurotoxin (found in the mucus secreted ...
The poisonous, invasive hammerhead worm is on the rise in Texas amid flooding around Houston. Poisonous hammerhead worms rising in Texas. When chopped in two, they double
This list of reptiles of Texas includes the snakes, lizards, crocodilians, and turtles native to the U.S. state of Texas.. Texas has a large range of habitats, from swamps, coastal marshes and pine forests in the east, rocky hills and limestone karst in the center, desert in the south and west, mountains in the far west, and grassland prairie in the north.
A worm can enter into the veins of the intestinal lining, where it will mature, mate and lay eggs. The eggs then get into the lungs, spleen, liver, and heart, causing an autoimmune reaction.