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

After feeding for about seven days, a maggot will fall to the ground, dig into the soil and then awaken as an adult fly.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 17, 2025

And that’s when she stumbled across Ron Sherman, the maggot doctor.

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

In Love’s Labour’s Lost, Shakespeare has Berowne complain, “Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise, / Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affectation, / Figures pedantical; these summer flies / Have blown me full of maggot ostentation.”

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith