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Close-up view of numerous pale, wriggling maggots clustered together, showing the segmented bodies of fly larvae. Housefly life cycle Screwworm Overhead view of a wheel of casu martzu cheese with a wedge removed, showing insect larvae throughout the cheese, on a red tray with a knife nearby.
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Maggots
A maggot is the larval stage of a fly's metamorphosis.
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Housefly life cycle
Life cycle of the housefly.
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Screwworm
Tusklike mandibles protruding from a New World screwworm (Cochliomyia hominivorax),...
Photo by John Kucharski, USDA Agricultural Research Service
Casu marzu cheese
Overhead view of a broken wheel of casu marzu cheese with the live larvae of cheese...
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