Bot Fly vs Andean Cloud Forest Ground Beetle

Side-by-side species comparison

Attribute	Bot Fly	Andean Cloud Forest Ground Beetle
Scientific Name	Dermatobia hominis	Notiobia nebrioides
Order	Diptera	Coleoptera
Family	Oestridae	Carabidae
Size	12-18 mm	10-14 mm
Habitat	Forests	Forests
Diet	Parasites	Predators
Regions	Central America, South America	Andes mountains (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia)
Conservation	Least Concern	Least Concern

Bot Fly

Parasitic fly whose larvae develop under the skin of mammals including humans. Female captures a mosquito and glues eggs to it — when the mosquito bites, body heat triggers egg hatching.

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Did You Know?

The human bot fly is so devious it hijacks mosquitoes — it catches them, glues eggs to their bodies, then the eggs hatch when the mosquito lands on warm skin.

Andean Cloud Forest Ground Beetle

A medium-sized dark brown ground beetle found in the cloud forests of the Andes mountains. It is typical of the rich but poorly studied carabid fauna of Neotropical montane forests.

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Did You Know?

Andean cloud forests harbor enormous but largely unstudied diversity of ground beetles, with new species still being described every year from remote mountain valleys.