Withdrawing A Massive Cuterebra Larvae From A Poor Cat’s Neck

This is a Cuterebra Being removed From a three week old kitten. He is doing quiet good and is with a foster.

You can see the hole on the kitten’s face where it was actually living. The hole stays open so the Botfly can breathe. Once mature it crawls out of the hole and then becomes a fly.

The adult one lays eggs near the opening of a rodent burrow and the the entrance burrow then into the host’s skin.

For this reason, we often see these on the face and neck of cats because they pick up the Botflies when they are hunting rodents. If you see a big hole that won’t seem to heal, particularly on the face or neck, of an outdoor cat it may be a Cuterebra.

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This is a Cuterebra Being removed From a three week old kitten. He is doing quiet good and is with a foster.

You can see the hole on the kitten’s face where it was actually living. The hole stays open so the Botfly can breathe. Once mature it crawls out of the hole and then becomes a fly.

The adult one lays eggs near the opening of a rodent burrow and the the entrance burrow then into the host’s skin.

For this reason, we often see these on the face and neck of cats because they pick up the Botflies when they are hunting rodents. If you see a big hole that won’t seem to heal, particularly on the face or neck, of an outdoor cat it may be a Cuterebra.

Source: ViacomCBS Inc.
Source:

Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing.