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What is a botfly?

What is a botfly? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. One of several dipterous insects of the family Oestridae, the larvae of which are parasites on many animals, including humans.
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Bots, Botts, botz, n. the larv of the botfly found in the flesh and in the intestines of animals.
Her feet were lacerated and bleeding, her face infested with botfly maggots.
The worst insect pest is the botfly larva.
He is several hundred miles away, ambassadoring to a backwoods strip of nothing which as far as I am concerned deserves no more of Shakallor's attention than a botfly.
Or perhaps allow writhing botfly larvae to feast upon your juices before popping out of your skin as a hairy fly?
A botfly slides off the burdock's crumpled epaulet, showing us that it always ranked just a private.

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