From an internet source I found an image of the
repulsive "berne" like the one I watched being extracted from a cow. I must
have been five or six years old at the time but I could never forget the popping
sound when it dropped on the ground. The adult reaction was equally
stunning.
I read that the botfly is not a fly,but the actual
"berne" (the larva in its pod). The fly linked to it is "Dermatobia hominis" and
one of its names in English is "bluebottle."*
Isn't it strange that in either SO or
SM Nabokov mentions that his father's favorite flower is also named
"bluebottle" ( cornflower)?
*-I think this information is imprecise. I
remember that because the bluebottles are very big, they lay their
eggs on an emissary, a smaller fly named, then, "botfly." who transports
them to their host.
wiki-help: Bluebottle
From Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia
Bluebottle can mean:
Blow-flies (Calliphoridae) of genus
Calliphora and similar species from other genera, specifically, the Blue bottle
fly (Calliphora vomitoria)
Cornflower (Centaurea cyanus)
Portuguese Man
o' War (Physalia physalis), stinging marine siphonophores resembling jellyfish
Blue ant, a species of large solitary parasitic wasp
See the images ( I hope I manage to include them
below)
BotFly não é a mosca, Botfly é o Berne, como é conhecido
no Brasil, em estágio larval.
A mosca é a "Dermatobia hominis",
popularmente conhecida no Brasil como "mosca-varejeira".
