Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Dermatobia hominis larva

Posted by pbertner on 17-07-2010 13:42
#1
A hitchhiker followed me home from my recent trip to the Peruvian Amazon. Relatively well developed after spending 2 months in my head. A recently extracted human botfly larva. The rows of hooks help keep the larva firmly entrenched under the skin.

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The strategy is basically the same as see in the video in this thread:http://www.diptera.info/forum/viewthread.php?forum_id=21&thread_id=26344.
Only instead of a housefly, it is a mosquito which is caught and which acts as the vector.
Edited by pbertner on 17-07-2010 14:04

Posted by Tony Irwin on 18-07-2010 19:53
#2
And you didn't let it pupate so you could rear the adult??!!Wink

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 18-07-2010 20:04
#3
there are guys with such luck.

Posted by pwalter on 19-07-2010 10:38
#4
Now I want to travel to Peru even more!

Posted by pbertner on 19-07-2010 17:41
#5
I tried rearing it on raw hamburger meat after the extraction, but it would have none of that Wink. Guess it knows the good stuff.

Posted by Paul Beuk on 19-07-2010 19:55
#6
Life meat is infinitely better than raw hamburger, the latter probably too dry as well. And by the looks of it, the larva is far from full-grown (at least one moulding left).

Posted by pbertner on 19-07-2010 21:08
#7
Sure felt full grown in there Wink!