What kind of fly lays maggots in your eyes?

"The American cochlomia fly injects two hundred larvae into people's eyes at once. And these larvae eat away at the human eye muscles, causing blindness. "- this is from the book by Ian Larry "The Extraordinary Adventures of Karik and Vali"
What kind of fly is this? Google didn't turn up anything.

Cochliomyia hominivorax (Coquerel, 1858) most likely it also refers to the disease Cochliomyasis (nothing is said about the eyes). A search for the Russian reading of Latin (incorrect) will not give anything .

The book of 1937, then you might have misunderstood something.

The book of 1937, then you might have misunderstood something.

Couldn't have misunderstood: it's just ignorance
And Latin is eternal.
By the way the genus is called Cochliomyia Townsend, 1915. The last digits "1915" just indicate that the genus was described in 1915.

Couldn't have misunderstood: it's just ignorance
And Latin is eternal.
By the way the genus is called Cochliomyia Townsend, 1915. The last digits "1915" just indicate that the genus was described in 1915.

Yes, of course, it is eternal
There is nothing more ephemeral than Latin names, especially from the late 80s. Here is a popular name, of course, if it exists and is exactly popular, age-old, really for the ages.

Yes, of course, it is eternal    
Here is a popular name, of course, if it exists and is exactly popular, age-old, really for the ages.

And this is said by a person who uses the Latin generic name Hierophis as a nickname. Bravo, Mr. Poloz........

I somehow got Cephenomyia ulrichi mixed up with a moose... I decided to put my offspring on my face. a few larvae managed to spray))) Now-a trophy

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VST, wow, where are they found? Can it get in the eye? What should I do to avoid being confused with a moose?

1. they are found where moose are found. This one is from the Leningrad region.
2. In the eye-easily (cavity gadflies sometimes sin with this, but the native localization is through the nostrils into the nasal sinuses and into the nasopharynx
). those who can do their best do so))))))))))))))))))))))))

VST, and the larvae of what size?

newborns-approx 1 mm, adults-10-15 mm

VST, is this gadfly dangerous to humans? What should I do if larvae get on my face or body? Are there any known cases of eye damage in humans?

about the danger to humans of the elk gadfly - I haven't seen much in the literature (maybe I just didn't look much). But I don't think Ulrich's cephenomy was the only one who was attracted to me))))))))))). The most medically well-known sheep gadfly is Oestrus ovis. Females spray larvae into the nostrils of sheep, which live in the nasal sinuses for about a year. Sometimes a person is attacked.Larvae get into the eyes and can crawl behind the eyeball.Pain, of course, terrible. There is information about a fairly long-term parasitization of larvae in humans. In the medical literature, standard actions are usually indicated : consult a doctor, and the larvae should be carefully removed. This is a very rare infestation and hardly anyone can share practical advice.
Less dangerous, but most common in humans is the stomach gadfly. Eggs are most often laid by flies on the fur of the forelimbs and sides of the body, that is, those places of the animal's body that it can reach with its teeth. A favorite egg – laying site is the putty joint, which accumulates hundreds of eggs firmly attached to the hairs by the end of July. After 7-16 days, the larvae in the eggs mature. Some of them even come out and cause itchy skin. The horse scratches the itchy spot with its teeth and at this time there is a mass exit of larvae from the eggs. The larvae enter the horse's mouth, enter the tongue, and develop in its tissues for about a month. After that, they shed and descend into the stomach. The hook is widespread and infects horses in places by 100%. Sometimes larvae of gastric gadflies get on the human body. This happens, for example, when bathing horses or caring for them. The larvae, once on the human skin, burrow into the epidermis and migrate under the skin, leaving a dark green trail. The limbs are most often affected, and sometimes the face. Treatment consists of removing the parasite from under the skin. This disease is popularly called "hairy". {for lack of time, I send a short excerpt from the summary of my lectures)))))))}

http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D1%84%...%B8%D0%B0%D0%B7

WIKI-in its own repertoire....
in the photo - an ADULT larva of a gadfly hook from the stomach of a horse... maybe in the history of medicine, there were several cases of larvae of this species entering the eye, but they were no more than 1mm)))))))
and wolfartiaz-yes.. it's a nightmare.. I even had to see it myself..(though not in humans). for a person - only in the photo.. but still impressive...
One thing can be said - miases in humans in Russia and even in the CIS are extremely rare.... I think that even taking into account the unregistered cases..
so you don't need to worry about it.. and then from every fly will have to shy away))))))))

In particular, I was encouraged to avoid flies only in certain places, a certain "Gobi fly" threatens my eyesight in the south of Tuva.

gobi fly...... and in Latin, who is she??

In fact, I was told about it by geologists, not biologists, so I don't know such details.

Yes.. there's a mystery here... if according to science , it can be wolfartiasis (but I was near Stavropol during the mass summer of this fly and somehow they ignored me, and the doctors found it difficult to say when they saw miases in people. At the same time, wolfarthiasis is common in sheep. I can say the same about the sheep gadfly). And if you look at it more broadly, then geologists could talk about flying small staphylinae, which can get into the eyes by accident and cause inconvenience (this is not uncommon in northern latitudes).... I don't know what other eye parasites can be.....

A scary bedtime story. A friend of mine caught beetles in Bolivia, and at home they cut out the larva of a fly (gadfly?) a centimeter in size from under the scalp.

This is not uncommon in Tropical countries.. all sorts of dermatobia there love people)))) and about the CIS somehow (thank God) - edinichno

In fact, those geologists haven't heard about reliable human cases either, but they've seen a lot of one-eyed cattle.

Wild Yuri, thank you, good story, I just like to relax in South America.

Rather, geologists have not heard about cases of eye loss, about eye washings-they have heard, they advised us to always have water ready, or better yet, a nicotinic acid solution, which someone recommends for killing larvae.

A scary bedtime story. A friend of mine caught beetles in Bolivia, and at home they cut out the larva of a fly (gadfly?) a centimeter in size from under the scalp.

From under the scalp is not terrible-there is also a bone, it will not get deep

absolutely true.. subcutaneous gadflies are not particularly evil at people)))))

one-eyed cattle-this could well have been done by nematodes-telyazii..... and maybe wolfaritya....

on the other hand, candira was also considered a myth.....

VST, wait, aren't telyazii harmless worms that live in the tear ducts?

nooo.

there is sometimes such conjunctivitis and other things develop, which may give the impression of the absence of an eye