I just had a botfly larva removed from my scalp! 
So, I've had this bump on the top of my head for the last few weeks and I thought that it could either be a small ingrown, hair or abscess or cyst, or it could be… A botfly larva. Well, it turned out it was the grossest possible option. 
I returned to the United States from spending two weeks at a biological research station in the Peruvian Amazon back on December 21.
Human bod flies lay their eggs on live mosquitoes, and when the mosquito bites, its host, usually some kind of mammal, the larva emerges from its egg goes into the bite wound and goes through It's larval stage under your skin. 
At the age of 48, after having been in rainforest in Mexico, Costa Rica, Ecuador, this was finally my first botfly.
For a lot of tropical biologists, this is kind of a badge of honor… Really gross and kind of cool. 
Deer nose botfly, Cephenemyia stimulator, Oestridae
As the name suggests, the larvae of this species are obligate parasites of cervids (deer). Larvae hatch in the adult female fly’s uterus; she then flies near the host animal and flings them into or near the animal’s nostrils. The larvae migrate down to the base of the host’s throat where they attach, feed, and mature. Mature larvae are ejected out the nose or mouth and pupate in soil.
FYI - DO NOT google more images of this species unless you want to see very graphic, gory photos of the insides of dead deer noses with larvae attached.
Photo 1 by gillessanmartin, 2 by waldgeist, 3-4 by brothernorbert, 5-6 by adlerauge, 7-8 by jltasset, and 9-10 by daknuett
Hi! Do you have a key for all your common tags? I'm a curious critter!
i don't but here lemme make one right now!
general tags:
#botfly - posts that are sooooooo bee michael coded. i'm the botfly i am referring to in the tag!
#bee writing - my writing! i wrote these things!
#bee art - my art! i ort these things!
#fav - posts i wanna find again (usually they make me laugh but not always)
#art - visual art n poetry mostly; usually followed by the artists's name if available!
#inspo - anything that inspires me to create! usually followed by the specific project of mine it inspires! but not always!
#places - places. like home interiors or nature or uh. you know places?
#in this house - posts about houses (a la house of leaves, skinamarink, myhouse.wad, etc)
#web - posts about TEH INT3RW3BZZZ
#diary - original posts of things i wanna remember
#lil guys - my miscellaneous animals / bugs / plushies / figurines tag. anything i deem a lil guy.
#kitty - posts about kitties :}
#sent 2 me - posts people sent to me!
#sam sent this to me - posts that specifically my friend sam @margaritaville sent to me
#uzzz - posts that remind me of me and my bf :}
#don't worry about it - what it says on the tin
nfrtg tags:
#nfrtg - either things that inspire / remind me of nfrtg or posts made by fans about nfrtg
#the faggot what runs - my personal tag for nfrtg stuff (like wips or con things) (i would very much prefer if ppl didn't use this tag bc it's bee's tag for bee things u know!)
#cscore - posts that could be on crowdsauce
#wwsf - stands for westward samefag; the role reversal au me and plent @probably-a-plant-thing have together, in which franky is a serial killer and his oc hongqi is a numb internet dweller
oc tags (relevant to nfrtg):
#oc: newf - that's soooooo newfag
#oc: franky - not to be confused with oc: newf! the franky tag is mostly concerning pre-nfrtg stuff that is not pertinent to nfrtg (in other words, you don't need to be familiar with all this extra franky lore in order to enjoy nfrtg!)
#oc: sonny - tha girl
#oc: dimi - mostly family guy shitposts
#oc: laika - promise there's no ed / ana content in here
#oc: andre - people love this guy
#oc: west - could double as a patrick bateman tag
#oc: sammy - please be nice
#oc: larry - don't really like talking about him
#oc: beth - mommy dearest
jthm stuff lmao:
#jay tee aych em - personal posts about jthm that i didn't want to clog up the tag
#ancaux - short for ancillary auxiliary; posts about / that remind me of my i feel sick fic i will maybe finish one day
#stixxx - short for sexual trauma clip show; posts about / that remind me of my jthm fic i will maybe finish one day
#pff - short for planet fitness fic (actual title is IT'S NOT A FETISH THING... but there was a tiktok that kinda blew up where someone was reading this fic on a treadmill in a planet fitness); posts about / that remind me of my first outright pervert fic awwwwww
Cephenemyia ulrichii (the moose throat botfly) is the funniest insect alive to me and there is no competition because
This species will have the most innocent adorable kissable marketable appearance of any fly evolved, but then you look them up and they have blood curdling lore able to turn your stomach in a sense rivaling Nick Cutter’s novels. I couldn’t even keep it together trying to read up on their life cycle for the first time because of
1. How convolutely messed up of a parasitism method they chose to thrive by
2. The extremely stupid reason behind why they accidentally end up in humans and the horrific location where
3. The images-information whiplash happening in my head that I hope this editing gets across.
