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All dead bodies develop maggots or worms, they are not found in live bodies.

2007-02-16 22:27:37 · 9 answers · asked by mandira_nk 4 in Science & Mathematics Zoology

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Maggots are fly larvae. Flies land on the body, lay eggs, and the larvae feed until they hatch. The the cycle repeats itself. Maggots also appear in open wounds and can actually heal the wound in
some cases.

If a person dies in a special kind of sealed clean room, maggots would not appear unless the fly larvae were already there. If they died outside the room and were brought in, the eggs were already laid. Worms only appear in a corpse if it is outside and has been lying on the ground for a long time and they have just crawled in. The botlfly is the worst kind and gets under the skin of live pets and causes diseases that even humans contract from them or from rubbish left in the garden that begins to rot where maggots can be found.

Maggots eat flesh, bad flesh, good flesh, red flesh, blue flesh. They do not know when to stop eating, the buffet never closes as far as they are concerned. In order to stop the process of tissue removal, the maggots have to be washed out with a sterile fluid. The British Army has, in its manual for special forces, espoused the method of flushing the wound with a fresh stream of urine when clean, red blood and flesh appear, to get the maggots out. I suspect hospitals use a saline solution or something like that. Generally,maggots take longer to turn into flies than is neccessary for the wound to be cleaned, and if they did, they'd leave behind shells which would infect the wound further, so No, they don't just turn into flies and fly away. In summary, flies are attracted by the smell of rotting flesh, which is why they lay their eggs there. However, if the rotting flesh is on a still- living being, the maggots will still gestate and begin eating, being oblivious to the fact that their dinner is still alive.

Sounds so horrible! - hope I have helped though?.

2007-02-16 22:43:58 · answer #1 · answered by Shikira-trudi 3 · 1 0

When there is a dead body,the Blowfly,usually shows up first,sometimes within 15 minutes of death to feed on decaying tissue.
Females lay eggs-hundreds of them -in the body's natural orifices and in any wounds present.
In each egg a maggot begins to form.Depending on temperature,it can take 8 to 10 hours for the eggs to hatch,maggots emerge.Eventually,the maggots practically take over.Maggots can consume 60% of a corpse in less than a week.
Once they are done feeding,they move away from the body,bury
into the ground and pupate,in that stage they develop crusty shells along the lines of a silk moth making a cocoon called
puparia.After 10 to 20 days a fly is born.

2007-02-16 22:52:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Interesting you bring that up. Before Louis Pasteur discovered the process of pasteurisation, people did indeed believe in a theory called "spontaneous generation", the belief that dead organisms transmorphed into simpler organisms like worms and maggots. He disproved that through his discoveries, trying to make high bacteria dairy products last longer in limited refrigeration.

But maggots do appear in live bodies as well. The scent and moisture of open exposed wounds invites flies to lay eggs, especially when there is little to sterilise a wound, such as the open desert, or in tropical regions. The invalid elderly often develop bed sores, and sick animals may have maggots on their wounds or infected areas, yet they may still heal and live on depending on their defense systems.

The "flesh eating" virus is simply a hyperreaction of a body's underactive immune system to a simple wound where the streptococcal bacteria has found an environment that allows it to flourish.

2007-02-16 22:45:43 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

The blue-green iridescent fly. I think it is called a bottle fly lays eggs into dead bodies and the eggs hatch as maggots which feed on decayed flesh and become flies. Ordinary house flies and most other types of flies are not attracted to dead things.

2007-02-16 22:43:54 · answer #4 · answered by Aunt Carol 2 · 0 0

Flys come to lay eggs on the dead thing which are larva/maggots so the young have food to eat when they hatch

2016-05-23 22:05:16 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

flies lay eggs on the body. the eggs hatch into maggots

2007-02-16 22:36:00 · answer #6 · answered by craig 3 · 0 0

maggots are the larvae of flies.

Flies land on dead meat and lay their eggs.

2007-02-16 22:34:27 · answer #7 · answered by Captain Jack 6 · 1 0

Flies. They land and deposit their eggs as soon as the body stops moving and fails to respond to the bites of the flies.

2007-02-23 14:07:57 · answer #8 · answered by bigbear 2 · 0 0

It comes from your dead flesh and stuff

2007-02-17 00:09:43 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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