Monday 25 April 2011

Close Up Of A Maggot

14 comments:

  1. Jasmine, it looks quite goofy close up. I thought a maggot would look scary.

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  2. I dunno. I think it would be scary to wake up and find one 5 feet long wandering around the bedroom.

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  3. You scream and he says "Herro, I'm shorry I fwightened yoo".

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  4. Maggots have a good purpose, also.

    http://www.disgustingly-healthy.com/

    The thought, though, is disgusting.

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  5. J, yeah I've heard about people having maggots eat the rotting flesh offa them, uugh.

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  6. I, once, read that maggots have saved many soldiers lives by eating the necrotic tissue from wounds, which helps prevent gangrene. It's creepy stuff, but beats losing limbs.

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  7. Reminds me....Bolivian head maggots! Now they ain't a good maggot.

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  8. There are lots more like this at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/picture-galleries/7924099/Creepy-crawlies-Amazing-Scanning-Electron-Microscope-pictures-of-insects-and-spiders.html

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  9. Thanks for that, the rest of them don't look so cute. They appear a touch jaggy, too.

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  10. "I'm a Dork Maggot!"

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