Most internal parasites of horses are worms, but bots are the larvae of a fly that needs a horse to complete its life cycle. This parasite spends most of its life fastened to the inside of the host ...

This is a little different subject than my normal newspaper articles, but my master’s degree is in veterinary parasitology so it is something I would like to talk about. Three types of horse bots are ...

APPARENTLY everyone will soon have to take a definite stand on the question of how fast a male deer bot fly can go. This has for some months been the subject of a rather bitter controversy in ...

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