{"id":692,"date":"2015-03-01T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-01T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antipest.com.my\/apblog\/?p=692"},"modified":"2015-02-28T19:51:47","modified_gmt":"2015-02-28T11:51:47","slug":"one-of-the-scariest-pests-on-earth-part-ii-botfly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antipest.com.my\/apblog\/one-of-the-scariest-pests-on-earth-part-ii-botfly\/","title":{"rendered":"One of the Scariest Pests on Earth (Part II) \u2013 Botfly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.antipest.com.my\/apblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Botfly1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-694\" title=\"ibotfly001p4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.antipest.com.my\/apblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Botfly1-300x179.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.antipest.com.my\/apblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Botfly1-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.antipest.com.my\/apblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Botfly1.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.antipest.com.my\/apblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Botfly-larva.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-695\" title=\"Botfly (larva)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.antipest.com.my\/apblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Botfly-larva.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"182\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Botfly (of family Oestridae)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A stout-bodied, dipteran fly that is highly variegated and is often found in Central and South America.<span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Botfly comes in different species and each species is adapted to attack a specific living being.<span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Different species are given different but funny names such as Sheep Nose Botfly, Horse Stomach Botfly, Human Botfly, etc.<span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Seems like they are named after their prey and the organs which they target.<span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Does Horse Stomach Botfly like to attack the stomach of a horse?<span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Beats me but that is somehow a fact!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">What is so scary about botflies, if you ask?<span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Well, their larvae, in the form of half-inch and bulky maggots, love to dwell in and feed on the living flesh and organs of other living beings.<span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0 <\/span>For example, Horse Stomach botflies lay their eggs in the grass only to be consumed by a horse later.<span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0 <\/span>With the eggs hatched in the horse\u2019s mouth as a result of the bodily heat, the larvae of botflies chew through the tongue of the horse and burrow their way into its stomach and begin to grow.<span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Once they are fully grown, they will come out from the anus of the horse \u2026 I mean \u2026 they will hide themselves in the excrement to be discharged by the horse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Human Botflies can attack basically any part of a human body in an indirect and later direct manner (what am I saying?).<span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Well, a Human Botfly first lays its eggs on a mosquito or horsefly, which later lands on a human and subsequently drops the eggs onto the human skin.<span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0 <\/span>The human\u2019s body heat will hatch the eggs and the larvae will then screw themselves into the human flesh and begin to live under the skin!<span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0 <\/span>There are few movies with the same title \u201cUnder the Skin\u201d but none of them have happy endings.<span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0 <\/span>The Human Botflies can attack any part of the human body, depending on where the eggs land on the human!<span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0 <\/span>They can crawl into your brain, eating your thoughts, and they can even come out from your tear ducts.<span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Reference: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/article_15816_the-5-most-horrifying-bugs-in-world.html\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/article_15816_the-5-most-horrifying-bugs-in-world.html<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Botfly (of family Oestridae) A stout-bodied, dipteran fly that is highly variegated and is often found in Central and South America.\u00a0 Botfly comes in different species and each species is adapted to attack a specific living &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.antipest.com.my\/apblog\/one-of-the-scariest-pests-on-earth-part-ii-botfly\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.12 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>One of the 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