The surgeon was correct: Doctors used local anesthesia and a 5 millimeter incision to remove the object beneath the woman’s skin, which was identified as a human botfly larva — essentially, a maggot — ...

A 36-year-old Florida woman went to multiple doctors complaining about a hard, itchy bump on her groin. She said it happened after her honeymoon in Belize. Doctors at Tampa’s Memorial Hospital thought ...

The larva of the human botfly (though not the one Florida doctors found under a newlywed’s skin) in the third and final stage of development that it takes inside a mammal’s body, according to ...