Wednesday, July 18, 2012

It's a Grubby Little Business: Using Maggots to Help Instead of Harm

Do maggots make you think of rotting meat, garbage and swarms of flies? Where large piles of organic matter decay, flies follow and maggots result. Maggots certainly feed off carrion and they do spread disease, so it's not a good idea to let an infestation carry on - particularly since, if allowed to mature, you'll have a fly problem soon enough.

But despite their reputation as disease-carriers, maggots are actively used in a range of fields including medicine and forensic science.

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