Here's a video showing the lesion and the larva if you want to be a bit grossed out: Otherwise known as Dermatobia hominis, this insect normally dwells in Central and South America, from Mexico ...

I’m Anna Rothschild, and this is Gross Science. Human botflies, also called Dermatobia hominis, are insects that live in Central and South America. The adult flies live only for a few weeks ...

Fortunately, there is only one type of botfly that infects humans, Dermatobia hominis. However, there are other flies that sometimes infect humans which on occasion can be more harmful.

The human botfly, Dermatobia hominis, is the only species of botfly whose larvae ordinarily parasitize humans, though flies in some other families episodically infect humans." Botflies are widely ...

Here's how the infestation process of the Dermatobia hominis, or human botfly, was described in a 2019 paper published in the journal "Nursing": To reproduce, female botflies lay eggs on blood ...