Maggots eat dead flesh, not living tissue.
These maggots were a little mixed up
Most definitely some maggots eat live flesh.
You just aren’t familiar with tropical fly species.
Regular garden variety fly maggots eat dead flesh but the tropics are full of nasty little monsters.
Not always. Look up the term myiasis.
These aren’t regular maggots. I can’t remember what it’s called but it’s fairly common there.
Maggots eat dead flesh, not living tissue.
Might be a lefty brain..
I saw several occurrences similar to this in Bolivia.
There was a type of fly/insect that would inject it’s eggs under a person’s skin where these eggs would develop into larvae. After several days, a large cyst would appear and the maggot like larvae could be seen squirming under the skin. When the cyst was lanced, the maggots/larvae would tumble out in a writhing mass.
There was a name for this fly/insect, but the name escapes me just now. It’s just one of those things I try to forget.
“Maggots eat dead flesh, not living tissue.”
Botfly larvae, fly maggots, eat living tissue. South America has botflies that will infest people. Most places it’s wild rodents like squirrels (I cleaned a squirrel with a botfly once, in the USA).
So you are mostly correct, maggots in the USA and most of Europe eat dead flesh.
Bot fly maybe.
Well, you can go ahead and get them inserted into your ear. I am not going to do that experiment in my head.
It’s actually a common problem in Maggot therapy. It can be quite painful for patients.
They'd have a FEAST on the typical Democrat brain.
Maggots eat dead flesh, not living tissue.
Was she a brain dead liberal?
And how might smart, well-adapted maggots react to a shortage of dead flesh, given the availability of live flesh?
Exactly. Probably a case of screw worms. Used to treat them in our cattle herds in South Texas.
A fly would lay their eggs onto a would, usually a tick bite, and the eggs would hatch. The worms would go to work.
The flys loved a cows ear because that is where the ticks normally were. If you did not catch it soon enough with medicine, you would have to cut the cow’s ear off. If that was not done soon enough the cow would go blind because the worm would bore into the brain (I guess).
Maggots eat dead flesh, not living tissue.
In South Texas we used to have “screw worms” that have since been eradicated by a special program to keep them in check.
These maggots literally ate the poor animals while they were alive.
Many years ago somewhere down along the border an old incapacitated woman who lived alone was found to have these maggots eating her nose and into her brain.
Botfly maggots eat living flesh.
You are correct.
The larvae in question were other than those of the common fly
Unless, they were worms, not larvae