maggot

One of them, for example, is responsible for the pigmentation of the maggots' teeth, while another is responsible for the formation of the striped pattern on the fly's abdomen.

Patient wounds routinely crawling with maggots because health care facilities have no access to soap, gauze, disinfectant and running water.

The infestation cycle continues when the maggots emerge 10 days later, drop from the fruit and burrow two to three centimeters into the dirt to pupate.

Chicago Police and the FBI are investigating who contaminated a breakfast buffet served to delegates at the Democratic National Convention with maggots.

“Occasionally the smell would hit but not very often. Obviously there's things like maggots which we all don't like to think of… but nothing ever felt horrifying or like a horror film.”