Botfly, I forgot about you.

As our Costa Rican vacation draws closer, things are coming to mind that I had failed to address before.

Do I need malaria pills?Do I need a typhoid or yellow fever shot?Have I HAD a typhoid or yellow fever shot?Poisonous snakes?Do monkeys carry rabies?Will my hair straightener work?Oh, and this horrifying little sucker.I don't believe in god, but this is the devil. The botfly.She lays her eggs in your skin and the larvae live inside your dermis and eat your tissue.Seriously.Fascinating, amazing, awe inspiring... but still yucky and scary and enough to make me wear long sleeves in 90 degree weather.Read about the glorious botfly here, on Wikipedia, and more specifically the human botfly, here.