The organisms were identified as sheep bot flies, or Oestrus ovis
A man’s itchy eye was due to more than a dozen fly larvae that were squirming around inside his peeper.
The 53-year-old man, who lives in France, went to the emergency room after he developed an itching sensation in his right eye that had lasted several hours. He told doctors that earlier that day he had been gardening near a horse and sheep farm when he felt something enter his eye. When doctors performed an eye exam, they discovered more than a dozen mobile, translucent larvae on the man’s cornea and conjunctiva.
The cornea is the transparent outer covering at the front of the eye and the conjunctiva is the membrane that lines the eyelid and white part of the eye.