Growing a botfly

[Rick]

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/compound-eye/2015/01/12/giving-birth-to-parasite/

 

[dmina]

All for the name of science... now I have warmed critters with my body heat... but I don't think I could let one incubate and live off me willingly.

 

[Jay]

Okay. That is seriously gross.

Interesting, but grotesque!

 

[CosbyArt]

Glad to see someone out there is willing to do something like this, although not me. It was interesting to see the fly develop and mature.

 

[Rick]

Well when he said he was an entomologist I was betting he would leave one in.

 

[Davedood]

Awesome!

 

[agent A]

i would so do this

 

[Rick]

As it turns out here a few of the people in my department have done this after they traveled to locations with botflies.

 

[Sticky]

I couldn't! After seeing animals with fly strike in person, no. It is horrifying to me.

 

[mantiseater]

he saw choeradodis and chaeteessa!