http://www.metafilter.com/tags/botflies/rss tag posts with botflies Fri, 14 Dec 2007 19:53:38 -0800 Fri, 14 Dec 2007 19:53:38 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/67462/How-To-Be-A-Good-Host <a href="http://ambergriscaye.com/pages/town/botfly.html">Bot flies are large, stout bodied, hairy flies that resemble bumblebees.</a> But how they reproduce is what makes them interesting: 1) An egg-laden female botfly captures a night-flying female mosquito and glues her eggs on to it. 2) When the mosquito is released and bites a victim, the host's body heat triggers an egg to hatch. 3) It falls off and burrows in. Even more interesting is that sometimes, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uZALlTlSHo">this happens on humans!</a> <small>[YouTube/NSFSqueamish]</small> And on humans sometimes, this happens in the most <a href="http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/action/showPdf?submitPDF=Full+Text+PDF+%28199+KB%29&doi=10.1046%2Fj.1464-410X.1997.00294.x&cookieSet=1">inconvenient</a> <small>[pdf]</small> of <a href="http://www.vexman.com/botfly.htm">places</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.67462 Fri, 14 Dec 2007 19:53:38 -0800 botfly botflies parasites HUMAN SCROTAL MYIASIS humannaire