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'''''Hypoderma tarandi''''', also known as '''reindeer warble fly''' and '''caribou bot fly''',<ref>[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2600172/ Emerging infectious diseases - Human Ophthalmomyiasis Interna Caused by Hypoderma tarandi, Northern Canada]</ref> is a species of [[warble fly]] that is [[parasitism|parasitic]] on [[reindeer]].<ref>Chillcott, in Stone et al., 1965, Catalog of the Diptera of America north of Mexico, p. 1112.</ref>
The larvae of this fly are a skin-penetrating ectoparasite that usually infest populations of reindeer and [[caribou]] in [[Arctic]] areas, causing harm to the hides, meat and milk in domesticated herds. They also may cause [[Ophthalmomyiasis]] in humans.<ref>[http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213224413000217 Warble infestations by Hypoderma tarandi (Diptera; Oestridae) recorded for the first time in West Greenland muskoxen]</ref>
==As food==
{{see also|Entomophagy}}
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