Look, all you need to do is fill the hole where they burrow into you with Vaseline and cover it with duct tape for a couple days. Except for your pets, of course. For them you have to squeeze it like a zit and when you can see the face, grab it with a pair of pliers and slowly…gently…extract it.
I am apparently. I’m more familiar with them, had a dog with what I assumed was screwworm when I was a kid, but maybe it was botfly as well. I didn’t actually know there was endemic botfly in the Western hemisphere.
So it’s mostly in South America and Central America I think…in the long long ago a website Rotten.com had surgical pictures of a Bot Fly larvae being removed…(Gross in its own right) From a toddlers eye ball.
I mean I am glad that kid who would be at least 35 now had removed and all, but HOW THE FUCK DID IT GET IN THERE‽
Look, all you need to do is fill the hole where they burrow into you with Vaseline and cover it with duct tape for a couple days. Except for your pets, of course. For them you have to squeeze it like a zit and when you can see the face, grab it with a pair of pliers and slowly…gently…extract it.
Or, maybe, like, have a functioning government.
I think you’re thinking of a bot fly…which is a whole other type of horrible…
I am apparently. I’m more familiar with them, had a dog with what I assumed was screwworm when I was a kid, but maybe it was botfly as well. I didn’t actually know there was endemic botfly in the Western hemisphere.
So it’s mostly in South America and Central America I think…in the long long ago a website Rotten.com had surgical pictures of a Bot Fly larvae being removed…(Gross in its own right) From a toddlers eye ball.
I mean I am glad that kid who would be at least 35 now had removed and all, but HOW THE FUCK DID IT GET IN THERE‽