Botfly - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: botflyBotfly
A dipterous insect of the family Estridaelig 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 larvaelig 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...
Bots
The larvaelig of several species of botfly especially those larvaelig which infest the stomach throat or intestines of the horse and are supposed to be the cause of various ailments...
Breeze
A fly of various species of the family Tabanidaelig noted for buzzing about animals and tormenting them by sucking their blood called also horsefly and gadfly They are among the largest of two winged or dipterous insects The name is also given to different species of botflies...
Burrel fly
The botfly or gadfly of cattle Hypoderma bovis See Gadfly...
Cuterebridae
a natural family of New World botflies...
Gadfly
Any dipterous insect of the genus Oestrus and allied genera of botflies...
Gasterophilus
The type genus of the Gasterophilidae comprising the horse botflies...
Horseworm
The larva of a botfly...
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