Clinical image: The Bot fly

The composition of horse bot fly (Gastrophilus intestinalis) larva blood.

Distribution of the Bot Fly Cuterebra emasculator (Diptera: Cuterebridae) in South Carolina1

Larvae of the bot fly Cuterebra emasculator Fitch infest tree squirrels and chipmunks from the Atlantic Ocean to just west of the Mississippi River and from southern Canada to the Gulf Coast of the United States. Whether the species is present in all states and provinces in this region is not well documented. Because there are few published records of C. emasculator in South Carolina, we gather...

A Method of Pedestrian Detection for Image Analysis Bot System

In this paper, to build an efficient intelligent surveillance system, the CNN algorithm, one of the deep learning algorithms, was used for an image analysis bot (bot, the abbreviation of robot, is a software tool for processing data) system to detect and classify pedestrians in a video sequence. To optimize the system, we made some improvements to the CNN algorithm. Additionally, we implement t...

Helminths and bot fly larvae of wild ungulates on a game ranch in central province, Zambia.

Helminths and bot fly larvae were collected from 11 wild ungulate species on a game ranch in the Central Province of Zambia. New host-parasite records are: Calicophoron sp. from defassa waterbuck Kobus ellipsiprymnus defassa and Kafue lechwe Kobus leche kafuensis; Avitellina centripunctata, Gaigeria pachyscelis and Gedoelstia cristata from tsessebe Damaliscus lunatus lunatus; Cooperia rotundisp...

Proteolytic activity in salivary gland products of sheep bot fly (Oestrus ovis) larvae.

This study identified and characterized hydrolytic enzymes in salivary gland products of Oestrus ovis larvae. Third instars were collected from the heads of slaughtered goats. Salivary glands were extracted, their products obtained by centrifugation and the enzymatic profile determined. Optimum pH, temperature of maximum proteolytic activity, thermal stability, and resistance of salivary gland ...