Yes, bot flies do live in Georgia. In fact, there have been cases where creatures like rabbits have been found with bot fly larvae under their skin!
Humans sometimes contract lice, which are insect parasites that live in the hair on the head.
When you feel like you can fly like a bot.
A bot fly is one of several families of hairy flies whose larvae live as parasites within the bodies of mammals, such as the Desert Woodrat.
Bot fly
A Bot fly
A female adult bot fly can lay from 300 to 1000 eggs in her short life span. The adult bot fly has no other goal in life than to lay eggs.
Yes, bot flies are classified in the order Diptera. Diptera is the same order of insects which contains the flies.
Endoparasites: Live inside the host eg. Plasmodium, Tapeworm, Roundworms, Bot fly ect.
Having just returned from NH and finding a mouse that had 3 bot flies in it, I would imagine those same flies to be able to live in humans. Mouse bots are a cute fly called Cuterebrids, they cannot live in humans. The human bot is exclusively tropical.
The type of symbiotic relationship that is represented by the Bot Fly and the oropendula is a behavioral and social symbiosis.
A Deer bot fly flies at 90 miles per hour