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Description: | Bowmore, Islay, Scotland Sent as an enquiry after it had appeared from under the scalp of a schoolboy who had been to Costa Rica on a school trip. It was not diagnosed as it is rarely experienced by Europeans compared to Americans who frequent central America for holidays. Most Amerian GPs would recognise the symptoms, associated swelling and irritation as the larva feeds under the skin. The appearance of the puparium after the larva has become fully fed must have come as a surprise to both patient and doctor in northern temperate Scotland.
The human bot fly will develop also in other mammals under natural conditions. It is carried to the host as an egg by a blood-feeding mosquito that has had the egg deposited onto its own body peviously by the female botfly adult. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | ARTHINSECT : DIPTERA : CUTEREBRIDAE : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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