DallasDirt » home critters http://dallasdirt.dmagazine.com DallasDirt is a real estate blog with a focus on housing trends, realtor news, and photos of local fabulous homes from the editors of D Magazine Mon, 25 Oct 2010 20:11:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Freeloading Bot Flies: Thinking Twice About a Second Home in the Tropics http://dallasdirt.dmagazine.com/2010/02/22/freeloading-bot-flies-thinking-twice-about-a-second-home-in-the-tropics/ http://dallasdirt.dmagazine.com/2010/02/22/freeloading-bot-flies-thinking-twice-about-a-second-home-in-the-tropics/#comments Mon, 22 Feb 2010 06:39:12 +0000 Candy Evans http://dallasdirt.dmagazine.com/?p=8022 This video on a tropical parasitic fly that bummed a trip to the U.S. inside a woman’s head made me think twice about all those vacation homes developers were pushing during the real estate boom. So I looked up botflies — hairy flies whose larvae live as parasites within mammals, Dermatobia hominis the only botfly species to use humans as a larvae nursery  –  and found a number of places I will check off my second home list for good now, including, surprisingly, Minnesota.

Oh and one more great thing about Texas: not known for botflies. Roaches and scorpions don’t go freeloading inside a girl’s head! Of course, I guess that poor bug was just seeking its own vacation home, in a way.

(Warning, video not for the easily grossed out.)

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