Mouse bot fly (Cuterebra fontinella)
I first heard about bot flies during a college semester abroad in Costa Rica. After having the life cycle of bot flies described to us, my classmates and I lived in semi-constant fear that we would wake up with a bot fly maggot burrowing under our skin (luckily this did not happen to any of the students that year). However, since Costa Rica was where I’d learned about them, I never considered that bot flies could live anywhere other than…