Figure 3. Stages of human myiasis. The female human botfly lays eggs directly in human tissue or the belly of other flies and various mosquitoes. When the fly or vector lands on a vertebrate, the eggs hatch from the heat. The larvae then grow under the skin, entering through a hair follicle, wound, or the bite site. In this reported patient, the furuncular myiasis of the scalp caused infrequent cranial osteomyelitis.
