We had horses. They were everywhere. Not necessarily the larvae, but the flies and the eggs they laid. We were forever cleaning them off the horses’ legs.
So gross. Our neighbors had horses and we enjoyed watching them in the pasture but now that they have moved and there are no horses around the fly population has gone down. Just house flies now. There are still cows in the neighborhood but they don’t seem to be as much of a problem. Maybe their skin is thicker.
Everyone here is talking like these are some exotic foreign thing. My sister had to deal with them on her horse’s legs and in their ears. That was in the Denver area.
I think these doctors need to go back to school if they are that amazed by botflys.