North American Deer Mouse, Peromyscus maniculatus, Consuming a Parasitizing Botfly Larva, Diptera: Cuterebridae

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  • Frances E. C. Stewart Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, 50 Stone Road East, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22621/cfn.v125i1.1129

Keywords:

North American Deer Mouse, Peromyscus maniculatus, botfly, Cuterebridae, parasitism, nest defense

Abstract

During a laboratory study in Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada, I videotaped a female North American Deer Mouse, Peromyscus maniculatus gracilis, consuming a botfly larva, Family Cuterebridae, that had just emerged from her chest. Although botfly parasitism has been widely studied in several species of small mammals, there are no prior reports of the host consuming the emerged botfly parasite.

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