A two-year-old cavalier King Charles spaniel was presented with accidentally observed larvae in fresh feces, which were identified as rat-tailed of the common drone fly (Eristalis tenax). This can cause facultative myiasis both humans and animals. Although myasis has already been described humans, to authors’ knowledge, this is first description such a case an animal Belgium.

The objective of the present work was to register the first proven cases of human pseudomyiasis due to Eristalis tenax in Goiás State, Brazil, underscoring their clinical manifestations and direct relationship with hygiene. The taxonomic identification of the instars was done according to the descriptions and keys presented by James (1947), Hartley (1961) and Guimarães & Papavero (1999). Two ca...

The phenology and sex ratios of three hover fly species on Canterbury farmland, New Zealand were recorded weekly from five yellow watertraps from October 15, 1993 to January 31,1997. Gut fullness, egg number and pollen content were recorded weekly from September 8, 1994 to July 25, 1996. Catches of Melanostoma fasciatum (Macquart) and Melang\ma novaezelandiae (Macquart) were higher during the s...