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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. Maggot therapy - Wikipedia

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    Maggot therapy (also known as larval therapy) is a type of biotherapy involving the introduction of live, disinfected maggots (fly larvae) into non-healing skin and soft-tissue wounds of a human or other animal for the purpose of cleaning out the necrotic (dead) tissue within a wound (debridement), and disinfection.

  4. Myiasis - Wikipedia

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    Maggot therapy – also known as maggot debridement therapy (MDT), larval therapy, larva therapy, or larvae therapy – is the intentional introduction by a health care practitioner of live, disinfected green bottle fly maggots into the non-healing skin and soft tissue wounds of a human or other animal for the purpose of selectively cleaning ...

  5. Disturbing video shows hundreds of maggots removed from ... - AOL

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    The nearly five-minute video consists entirely of close ups of the infestation and footage of the maggots being pulled from the ear. The video, posted earlier this year to YouTube, has more than ...

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

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    The Texas parks department says the maggots will lay eggs in "open wounds or orifices of live tissue such as nostrils, eyes or mouth." Such an infestation is known as New World screwworm myiasis .

  7. Calliphoridae - Wikipedia

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    Maggot debridement therapy (MDT) is the medical use of selected, laboratory-raised fly larvae for cleaning nonhealing wounds. Medicinal maggots perform debridement by selectively eating only dead tissue. Lucilia sericata (Phaenicia sericata), or the common green bottlefly, is the preferred species used in maggot therapy. [58]

  8. Fly - Wikipedia

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    Maggots found on corpses are useful to forensic entomologists. Maggot species can be identified by their anatomical features and by matching their DNA. Maggots of different species of flies visit corpses and carcases at fairly well-defined times after the death of the victim, and so do their predators, such as beetles in the family Histeridae.

  9. NFL playoff schedule: Dates, times, TV info for wild-card ...

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    The NFL playoff schedule is about to be set, with the wild-card dates and times for every matchup to be revealed during Week 18.