Bot flies are not common in the Middle East or Asia. However it is possible for them to be in the country since it is close to water.
Yes.
Yes, bot flies are classified in the order Diptera. Diptera is the same order of insects which contains the flies.
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Yes, bot flies are classified in the order Diptera. Diptera is the same order of insects which contains the flies.
Absolutely!
they are actually really dangerous
From what I have read, they are in every state in the US. There are 26 species of Bot Flies in North America. They perfer Rodents, but they will infest any mammal they find.
You don't. They grow from eggs laid by female bot flies under the skin of an animal. When the eggs hatch maggots grow under the skin and then metamorphose into adult bot flies, which then cut their way out to emerge through the skin.
no
Having just returned from NH and finding a mouse that had 3 bot flies in it, I would imagine those same flies to be able to live in humans. Mouse bots are a cute fly called Cuterebrids, they cannot live in humans. The human bot is exclusively tropical.
The country Turkey is spelled as "Türkiye" in Turkey.