What is another name for the larval stage of a fly?
Correct answer: Maggot
Byrde Alpha Bitch
Maggots have & can also act as a natural way to clean & get rid of dead tissue for a wound.
glog
kinda tricky showing a caterpillar in the picture
Byrde Alpha Bitch
DaniM , That is heartbreaking & it reminds me of an incident from our youth. We will try to keep this as short as possible. Gal we knew kept her child in a carseat almost 24/7. Once we babysat for her one day, we took the baby out of that carseat, it was soaked thru with sweat, milk/formula, etc. We went to give the baby a bath & found a maggot between her chest & chin. We took photos, called the police & CPS (Child Protection Services). We would not release her to anyone but the cops & CPS. They released the child to the biological father. To our knowledge, she was not allowed to have contact with her child, she served time, probation. She kept having children & every one of them were taken from her one way or another.
Lionessa
In addition to the maggots of green bottle-nose flies, leeches are also used occasionally in modern medicine. The maggots are sterile, the flies only being fed nice clean food with no garbage, rotten meat, or feces. The leeches are sterile as well. They are used in places where blood pools in tissue after surgery. Maggots, of course, clean infected wounds by eating only necrotic (dead) tissue.
Windwilloe
glog,
Hadn't noticed. Thnx for point out
DaniM
reminds me of when I was a pet groomer. there was a cocker spaniel that had an ear infection so bad that the poor thing had maggots in his ears.
ElFeo
Not the one pictured, though.
banjo
they may be gross, but they serve a purpose.