(n.) The fly at the end of the leader; an end fly.
Example Sentences:
Botfly
Definition:
(n.) A dipterous insect of the family (Estridae, 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 larvae 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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Larvae of the nasal botfly, Oestrus ovis, were present only from January to July.
(2) We report a case in which the first larval stage of a rodent or rabbit botfly, Cuterebra sp., invaded the anterior chamber, produced a transient iridocyclitis, and adhered to the posterior cornea where it remained as a dead, slightly atrophic body.
(3) Sheep botfly (Oestrus ovis) conjunctival infestation is rare in North America but is common in other parts of the world.
(4) Three patients had conjunctival ophthalmomyiasis caused by the ovine nasal botfly.
(5) We saw two cases of cutaneous myiasis from the larvae of the botfly, Dermatobia hominis.
(6) We saw a 24-year-old man who returned from South America with cutaneous myiasis caused by larvae of the human botfly Dermatobia hominis.
(7) The paper describes the flight periods and dynamics of abundance of horse botflies, life span of females and males, effect of environmental factors on the activity of flies and their behaviour, potential fecundity of different species of botflies, duration of embryonal development, preservation of viability of larvae in egg membranes, localization of different stages of botflies in the host, and methods of their control.
(8) The entire syndrome was subsequently determined to be due to cutaneous myiasis caused by the larvae of Hypoderma lineatum, the cattle botfly.
(9) A case of botfly myiasis occurred in a patient who traveled to Brazil.
(10) Alongside with a high intensity of infection of horses with botfly larvae there was observed mass aberrant parasitism of horse botflies in farms of Astrakhan, Guryev and Uralsk Provinces, and in the Kalmyk ASSR in 1980-1981 and 1987.
(11) The main reasons are as follows: factors depending on the population density at the larval phase, the light day duration within the life cycle of the botfly females.
(12) During the winter months, 2nd and 3rd instar Rhinoestrus antidorcitis and R. vanzyli (nasal botflies) were present.
(13) The flight of the horse botfly begins from the second decade of June and ends in the second decade of September; the flight of the sheep botfly begins in the third decade of June and ends in the first decade of September.
(14) We report a case of cutaneous myiasis caused by the human botfly, Dermatobia hominis, in a soldier who had participated in military operations in Central America.
(15) Presented is a case of acute bilateral conjunctivitis in a healthy 28-year-old man with signs and symptoms resembling those of catarrhal conjunctivitis but resulting from infestation with larvae of the sheep nasal botfly.
(16) The mixed host inflammatory response surrounding the larvae included lymphoblasts, eosinophils, activated fibroblasts, mature histiocytes, mast cells, plasma cells, and Langerhans cells, indicating a complex interactive immunologic response to the botfly parasite.
(17) Infection with this parasite, botfly myiasis, is described in detail.
(18) Gasterophilus intestinalis was the most prevalent and abundant botfly larva recovered.
(19) Botfly infestation was analyzed in 1319 small mammals from varied habitats and elevations in upland Virginia, 1972-1974.
(20) A description of the life cycle of the tropical botfly, Dermatobia hominis, is presented.