Today's Bug of the Week is one of the nastiest critters in the region. Bill van den Bold snapped a picture earlier this year ...

Life can be tough for a squirrel — pets chase them, they are thwarted from feasting on bird feeders, they get run over by cars and bikes when they act squirrely by zig-zagging across roads and trails.

This week on Dr. Jeff: Rocky Mountain Vet, a dog is rushed in for emergency surgery and a rabbit has some Bot Fly larvae growing inside it. Some growths on the neck of a family pet have ruptured and ...

Most internal parasites of horses are worms, but bots are the larvae of a fly that needs a horse to complete its life cycle. This parasite spends most of its life fastened to the inside of the host ...

A U.K. woman who complained of general illnesses and itchy raised lesions on her scalp after a trip to Argentina likely never guessed her symptoms were stemming from wriggling botfly larvae that were ...

The organisms were identified as sheep bot flies, or Oestrus ovis. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A man's itchy eye was due to ...

Many 7News viewers know our good friend Tower Cat enjoys lounging outside our station. However, TC had a recent health scare ...

Mina Shenouda, MD, et al/Journal Investig Med High Case Rep./American Federation for Medical Research/CC by 4.0 A 36-year-old Florida woman discovered that she had a human botfly larva living under ...

One more reason I'm glad I was born in Canada and not some other country with all those gross parasites and/or a myriad venomous things that can kill you ...