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

Also on this fractured fairy tale’s jampacked menu are human-sized animal costumes, arcade graphics, pratfalls, pole dancing, adorable maggot puppets, Rube Goldberg designs, expressionist sequences and even a bar brawl with rodents.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 15, 2024

This enzyme protects the maggot from infections, protecting us in the process.

From Slate • Feb. 25, 2024

Scientists have compiled many more nematode connectomes, as well as brain maps of a marine annelid worm, a tadpole, a maggot and an adult fruit fly.

From Scientific American • Aug. 21, 2023

“I believe there is a little maggot in her brain whispers I don’t have two farthings to clink.”

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson