Oestrus ovis, a cosmopolitan dipteran parasite commonly known as the sheep nose botfly, is responsible for oestrosis in small ruminants and ophthalmomyiasis in humans. In sheep and goats, the larvae ...

On Wednesday, doctors in France reported a rare case of tiny sheep bot fly larvae—aka maggots—infesting the outer surface of a man’s eyeball. The small, spiky larvae were seen slithering around the ...

The organisms were identified as sheep bot flies, or Oestrus ovis. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A man's itchy eye was due to ...

THESE larvæ are those of a fly of the family Oestridæ, and their structure, as well as their habits, shows them to be referable to the genus Oestrus, and to be allied to the well-known “Sheep-bot fly, ...