Synonymer & Information om | Engelska ordet BOTFLY

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• Both the English and scientific names arise from their habit of perching on large mammals (both wild and domesticated) such as cattle, zebras, impalas, hippopotamuses, rhinoceroses, and giraffes, eating ticks, small insects, botfly larvae, and other parasites, as well as the animals' blood.
• Dermatobia hominis is the only species of botfly known to parasitize humans routinely, though other species of flies cause myiasis in humans.
• Gasterophilus haemorrhoidalis (lip botfly) – ranges worldwide and primarily infects horses, mules, donkey and reindeer.
• Gasterophilus haemorrhoidalis (also called nose botfly or lip botfly) is a species of the genus Gasterophilus that lays eggs on the lips and around the mouth of horses, mules and donkeys.
• Although flies are most commonly attracted to open wounds and urine- or feces-soaked fur, some species (including the most common myiatic flies—the botfly, blowfly, and screwfly) can create an infestation even on unbroken skin.
• The human botfly, Dermatobia hominis (Greek δέρμα, skin + βίος, life, and Latin hominis, of a human), is a species of botfly whose larvae parasitise humans (in addition to a wide range of other animals, including other primates).
• Additionally lungworms and the nasal botfly will enter and parasitize the deer's lungs and nasal passageways.
• Fly strike or myiasis – infestation of the wool, skin and eventually flesh with blowfly or botfly maggots, rapidly causing injury or death.
• Gasterophilus intestinalis or horse botfly: infestation of a horse's stomach by maggots of this insect is known as "the botts".
• In Maelstrom and Behemoth:B-Max, author Peter Watts describes various flying devices, such as "botflies" (named after the botfly) and "lifters" that use "vacuum bladders" to keep them airborne.
• Hypoderma tarandi, also known as the reindeer warble fly and reindeer botfly, is a species of warble fly that is parasitic on reindeer.
• Another species of bot fly called Dermatobia hominis (human botfly) commonly infests humans in Central and South America.

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