fly larvae
Infant winged insects
Fly larvae are the immature, wormlike stage of flies—what most people call maggots.
They hatch from eggs and feed voraciously before pupating into adult flies.
Fly larvae appear in decaying organic matter, wounds, and food waste.
Some species have medical uses: Doctors applied fly larvae to clean the wound of dead tissue.
- maggot therapyWound cleaning via larvae
- pupaeMetamorphosis middle stage
- maggotImmature fly stage
- carrionPutrefying animal remains
- dead bodyDeceased person's remains
rotting flesh · decomposer · grub · detritivore · instar · biotherapy · crop pest · legless · fishing bait · scavenger · compost bin · white · crawling · feeding · garbage · garbage can · hatching · infestation
- decomposersfungi, decomposers, decomposer, mushrooms, earthworms
- detritivoresearthworms, millipedes, woodlice, pill bugs, sowbugs
- larvaelarva, caterpillar, caterpillars, maggot, maggots
- carrion insectsblow flies, blowflies, carrion beetles, maggots
- edible insectscrickets, cricket, grasshoppers, grasshopper, mealworm
- Soil Lifeearthworm, earthworms, nightcrawler, nematodes, soil bacteria