Author: Frederick Wendt

Cited by

• Timothy Hallinan (1)
  • IN: Everything but the Squeal (1990) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The curious life cycle of the botfly begins with an egg laid on a mammal's lip or fur. When the egg is licked and swallowed, its coating dissolves and a voracious larva is freed to float in the juices of the stomach. Eventually it begins to eat its way out, gaining weight as it goes. When it reaches the surface, usually through a flat muscle, the baby fly leaves behind an exit wound about the size of a.22 caliber bullet.
    FROM: An Entomologist's Notebook, (None), Book, UK