Thread subject: Diptera.info :: A fly full of maggots?

Posted by Paul Beuk on 11-08-2008 07:05
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Well, some flies are not oviparous (laying eggs) but larviparous (laying larvae). Basically this means that the eggs hatch inside the female abdomen before oviposition takes place. If you were to squash such a fly which is about to 'give birth' you will get what you got. So the worms did not only look like tiny maggots: they were!