maggot
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It is the larval, or maggot, stage of a metallic-looking blowfly known as Cochliomyia hominivorax.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 17, 2025
After feeding for about seven days, a maggot will fall to the ground, dig into the soil and then awaken as an adult fly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2025
This enzyme protects the maggot from infections, protecting us in the process.
From Slate ● Feb. 25, 2024
Other major pests the program has monitored this year include the apple maggot, Japanese beetle and spongy moth.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 7, 2023
“You’ve got a maggot in your brain, Tjaden, just you run along to the latrine quick, and get your head clear, so that you don’t talk like a two-year-old.”
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
We get a clear-eyed look at disgust, a nearly universal human response to the likes of maggots, cockroaches, ticks, leeches, slugs and lice.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026
Once the eggs hatch, the maggots burrow into flesh in a corkscrew motion, which is how the insect got its name.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 17, 2025
Toilets crawling with rats, maggots and flies became so noxious that neighbors began defecating on the surrounding dirt roads.
From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2025
Patients are treated by removal of the maggots, which need to be killed by putting them into a sealed container of concentrated ethyl or isopropyl alcohol then disposed of as biohazardous waste.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2025
Like maggots they had swarmed defilingly over the mystery of Linda’s death.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
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