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Nose bot fly

Gasterophilus haemorrhoidalis (Linnaeus, 1758)

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The nose bot fly (Gasterophilus haemorrhoidalis) is a species in the family Oestridae, order Diptera.

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Quick facts about the nose bot fly

Weight
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Length
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Lifespan
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Main food
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Habitat
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Young per litter or clutch
Not recorded
Conservation status
Not recorded
Countries on record
Not recorded

Where does the nose bot fly live?

Not recorded

Where has it been introduced?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the nose bot fly as introduced in 1 country.

  1. United States

Introduced means brought by people and now present; invasive means the country's checklist records an impact. A species can be native to one part of a country and introduced in another. Source: Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (CC BY 4.0).

Is the nose bot fly endangered?

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

How is the nose bot fly classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderDiptera
  5. familyOestridae
  6. genusGasterophilus
  7. SpeciesGasterophilus haemorrhoidalis (Linnaeus, 1758)

Synonyms Gasterophilus flavipes, Gasterophilus pseudohaemorrhoidalis, Gasterophilus salutifera, Gastrophilus pallens, Oestrus aemorrhoidalis, Oestrus duodenalis, Oestrus flavipes, Oestrus haemorrhoidales, Oestrus haemorrhoidalis, Oestrus hemorrhoidalis, Oestrus salutiferus

Other names and names in other languages (2)
  • oestre du nezFrench
  • Овод-усоклейRussian

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of the nose bot fly

Other species in the same genus Gasterophilus.

Horse bot fly

Gasterophilus intestinalis

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Horse botfly

Gasterophilus inermis

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Common questions

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Is the nose bot fly an invasive species?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the nose bot fly as introduced in 1 country: United States, but does not flag it as invasive in any of them.

What kind of animal is the nose bot fly?

The nose bot fly (Gasterophilus haemorrhoidalis) belongs to the family Oestridae in the order Diptera.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-14. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Nose bot fly (Gasterophilus haemorrhoidalis). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/nose-bot-fly

MLA

“Nose bot fly (Gasterophilus haemorrhoidalis).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/nose-bot-fly.

BibTeX
@misc{nose_bot_fly_2026,
  title = {Nose bot fly (Gasterophilus haemorrhoidalis)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/nose-bot-fly},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}