This is one of those nature columns that even kind of grosses me out, so stand warned. I mean, after all, it’s not easy reading up on maggots. Mainly, because they’re such disgusting, slimy little creatures. Why else is it considered such an insult to say to someone: “You’re nothing but a little maggot?”
Call it the “M-word.”
Maggots came to mind the other day when I opened the lid to our outside garbage can. Apparently, with the weather still in the 90s, one of the bags I had slipped into the can had opened, drawing flies, which laid the baby flies,