Maggots in medicine
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The Different Types of Lucilia Cerakata
There are over 150,000 fly species and we use a single one. It's called Lucilia Cerakata it's a common green blow fly. They will come to especially compost or your food waste but also see them in forensic cases as well so they come to decomposing things. The older ones are going to smell a little bit differently just because they've had their protein they're going to excrete things and poop all over the cages. Can we go see how that happens? Yes let's go see some maggots. Great. So now we're inside of the fly room you can feel the temperatures change drastically. It's a lot warmer and it's a bit pond
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