• hansolo@lemm.ee
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    5 days ago

    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.

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      5 days ago

      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‽