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  2. Maggot - Wikipedia

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    Maggots feeding on an opossum carrion Maggots on a porcupine carcass Maggots from a rabbit. Common wild pig (boar) corpse decomposition timelapse. Maggots are visible. A maggot is the larva of a fly (order Diptera); it is applied in particular to the larvae of Brachycera flies, such as houseflies, cheese flies, and blowflies, [1] rather than larvae of the Nematocera, such as mosquitoes and ...

  3. Myiasis - Wikipedia

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    Fannia spp. (latrine flies) Eristalis tenax (rat-tailed maggots) Muscina spp. The adult flies are not parasitic, but when they lay their eggs in open wounds and these hatch into their larval stage (also known as maggots or grubs), the larvae feed on live or necrotic tissue, causing myiasis to develop. They may also be ingested or enter through ...

  4. Texas warning of "maneater" screwworms that lay eggs in flesh

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    Just one fly can lay up to 300 eggs at a time and is drawn "to the odor of a wound or natural opening on a live, warm-blooded animal." ... "When NWS fly larvae (maggots) burrow into the flesh of a ...

  5. Maggot farming - Wikipedia

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    Then, flies deposit eggs on the offal and meat, and maggots hatch and consume it. After that, the bins are filled with water, so the maggots start to float (separating themselves from any leftovers). The maggots are then harvested and the leftover is discarded or further processed (e.g., bones can be ground to bone meal). An alternative method ...

  6. Calliphora vomitoria - Wikipedia

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    Larvae are protein-rich and can theoretically be used as feed. A female blue bottle fly lays her eggs where she feeds, usually in decaying meat, garbage, or feces. Pale whitish larvae, commonly called maggots, soon hatch from the eggs and immediately begin feeding on carcasses of dead animals and on the decomposing matter where they were ...

  7. Apple maggot - Wikipedia

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    However, these organisms generally feed in the apple's core while apple maggots feed on the fruit flesh. The apple maggot larvae are often difficult to detect in infested fruit due to their pale, cream color and small body size. The adult fly lays its eggs inside the fruit. Larvae consume the fruit and cause it to bruise, decay, and finally ...

  8. Rhagoletis mendax - Wikipedia

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    Eggs are white and elongate in shape. [1] Full-grown larvae or maggots are 7.75 mm (5 ⁄ 16 in) long, off white, with large preoral teeth (in front of the mouth), a cone-shaped distal sensory organ at the head, and large anal lobes and paired spiracles located on the blunt posterior.

  9. Flesh fly - Wikipedia

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    Sarcophagidae (from Ancient Greek σάρξ sárx 'flesh' and φαγεῖν phageîn 'to eat') [1] are a family of flies commonly known as flesh flies.They differ from most flies in that they are ovoviviparous, opportunistically depositing hatched or hatching maggots instead of eggs on carrion, dung, decaying material, or open wounds of mammals, hence their common name.