Bot flies are not generally considered festive. This is especially true if you are a reindeer, which often have reindeer nasal bot flies, or snot bots, as they are affectionately known. The nasal bot ...

Long talk story about the bot fly, and Dr. Townsend-Dr. Langmuir controversy as to its speed. Dr. Townsend,a specialist in the study of Diptera (flies, gnats, and mosquitoes), first published his ...

Sometimes entomologists get up close and personal with the bugs they study. And sometimes they incubate bot flies in their own arms until the parasites burst out of their skin a la the movie "Alien." ...

This is the grossest thing you’ll see all day This is the grossest thing you’ll see all day is a reporter who writes about tech, money, and human behavior. She joined The Verge in 2014 as science ...