However, they note that flies are attracted to "foul-smelling discharges from body openings," where they lay their eggs ... some baby maggots, called larvae, were spotted wriggling through ...

Mike told me something interesting: The “wasps” were, in fact, rhino bot flies from the family Gasterophilidae (meaning stomach-loving), and they’re Africa’s largest flies. The larvae live in ... in ...

The flies lay eggs in open wounds, which hatch into larvae who feed on the animals' flesh. Without treatment, the infection can be fatal within a week. In the early 20th century, the losses in ...