“…or I should say, numerous friends who have had bot flies. They don’t all have them now.”
Our biologist daughter Amity aka Mickey aka Micks has numerous friends who live exciting biologist kinds of lifestyles. She just came home from a party where one of the guests had returned from Peru with a bot fly larva growing inside his foot.
“There are lots of ways to get rid of a bot fly larva. For instance, you can tape a piece of meat to your foot. The larva comes out to eat the meat, and you whip it away very fast. Or you can enclose the body part in a bag, and fill it with smoke…”
Amity and her husband Colin, also a biologist, are headed off tomorrow to New Zealand for three weeks, tourguiding (part of the time) for the Harvard Museum of Natural History. I expect them to come home with lots of new friends, and lots of new stories.
But no bot fly larvae, at least, I very much hope not.