{"id":3652,"date":"2014-01-12T11:05:14","date_gmt":"2014-01-12T11:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp\/2014\/01\/12\/cattle-bots\/"},"modified":"2019-11-14T21:42:56","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T21:42:56","slug":"cattle-bots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/fr\/2014\/01\/12\/cattle-bots\/","title":{"rendered":"Cattle bots!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/escsecblog.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/01\/img_3384.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1159 aligncenter\" alt=\"IMG_3384\" src=\"http:\/\/escsecblog.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/01\/img_3384.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"373\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">While out visiting our friend Rafael&rsquo;s ranchito yesterday, we were surrounded by a herd of curious cattle. These were a mix of both Brahmas and Holsteins, with some crosses as well. One animal in particular caught my eye; it appeared to have bot emergence holes on its sides.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/escsecblog.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/01\/img_3389.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1160\" alt=\"IMG_3389\" src=\"http:\/\/escsecblog.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/01\/img_3389.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">I asked Rafael what these were, and sure enough, he told me that these were \u00ab\u00a0torsalo\u00a0\u00bb, basically the same New World bot that <a href=\"http:\/\/evopropinquitous.tumblr.com\/post\/43767432722\/things-i-learned-as-a-field-biologist-294-one\">scientists are always getting<\/a> in the Neotropics. I was not aware that\u00a0<em>Dermatobia hominis<\/em> parasitizes cattle, but apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/14623415\">it quite commonly does so<\/a>. It makes sense, as emergence sites of <a href=\"http:\/\/entnemdept.ufl.edu\/creatures\/livestock\/cattle_grub.htm\">Cattle Grubs <\/a>would be higher up on the back of the animal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">I love it how my entomological training really gets awakened when travelling in new areas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While out visiting our friend Rafael&rsquo;s ranchito yesterday, we were surrounded by a herd of curious cattle. These were a mix of both Brahmas and Holsteins, with some crosses as well. One animal in particular caught my eye; it appeared to have bot emergence holes on its sides. I asked Rafael what these were, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[620,473,552],"tags":[680,681,678,682,683],"class_list":["post-3652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economic-entomology-fr","category-blog-fr","category-natural-history-fr","tag-bots-fr","tag-cattle-fr","tag-honduras-fr","tag-oestridae-fr","tag-torsalo-fr"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5635,"href":"https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3652\/revisions\/5635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}