Crossword clues for botfly
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Botfly \Bot"fly`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) A dipterous insect of the family ( Estrid[ae], of many different species, some of which are particularly troublesome to domestic animals, as the horse, ox, and sheep, on which they deposit their eggs. A common species is one of the botflies of the horse ( Gastrophilus equi), the larv[ae] of which (bots) are taken into the stomach of the animal, where they live several months and pass through their larval states. In tropical America one species sometimes lives under the human skin, and another in the stomach. See Gadfly.
Wiktionary
alt. One of several dipterous insects of the family Oestridae, the larvae of which are parasites on many animals, including humans. n. One of several dipterous insects of the family Oestridae, the larvae of which are parasites on many animals, including humans.
WordNet
n. stout-bodied hairy dipterous fly whose larvae are parasites on humans and other mammals
Wikipedia
The Oestridae are a family of flies variously known as bot flies, warble flies, heel flies, gadflies, and similar names. Their larvae are internal parasites of mammals, some species growing in the host's flesh and others within the gut. The human botfly, Dermatobia hominis, is the only species of bot fly known to parasitize humans routinely, though other species of flies do cause myiasis in humans.
Usage examples of "botfly".
When the woman in black had been next to the cycler, the botfly had mistaken two intimate signals for one.
To human eyes, a Calvin cycler was a shiny metal coffin built for a minivan: to the botfly it was a muted tangle of EM emissions.
Directly beneath another botfly tracked south on its appointed rounds, a giant metallic beetle untroubled by the mystery that had confounded its predecessor.
They swooped down like big metal hornets: a nastier breed of botfly, faces bristling with needles and taser nodes, bellies distended with superconducting ground-effectors that could lift a man right off his feet.
Vive took it in: a botfly nearby, spewing canned warnings about orderly dispersal.
A young man was in the lead, the only person mounted, his horse an aged roan draught animal with a bowed spine and botfly sores on its neck.
A month later it erupted, and inch-long botfly maggots started squirming out and dropping to the ground.
On the balcony of my hotel room I examine those I can closely in the sun, wondering which of the swollen swaths of flesh contain the squirming larvae of the botfly the nun had so kindly warned me about on the flight into Belize.
My hand hurts from a bite, it is swelling with a frightening rapidity, and I suspect the botfly larva is squirming there beneath my skin.
The egg of the botfly had hatched on her skin and burrowed its way down into her breast.
A banner of text scrolled across her field of view: another four hundred botflies successfully requisitioned for the SeaTac mop-up.
She imagined she must have slept at some point, but her eyes happened to be open on two occasions when botflies passed quietly overhead, dark ellipses backlit by a brightness too faint for naked eyes.
A smattering of botflies flitted closer to shore, of a different sort than Sou-Hon Perreault rode.
Fifteen meters away a phalanx of botflies was bearing down like the Four Horsemen.
Clarke had none of the special skills and training that armed the least of her enemies, no botflies or talking guns, but she had something.