Life can be tough for a squirrel — pets chase them, they are thwarted from feasting on bird feeders, they get run over by cars and bikes when they act squirrely by zig-zagging across roads and trails.

The organisms were identified as sheep bot flies, or Oestrus ovis. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A man's itchy eye was due to ...

The parasite’s scientific name is Cuterebra emasculator, which, from its Latin roots, translates as skin-boring testicle remover. In 1856 Asa Fitch (the nation’s first professional entomologist) ...