Word Finder - maggot

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A soft, legless larva of a fly or other dipterous insect, that often eats decomposing organic matter.

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A worthless person.

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Drop and give me fifty, maggot.

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A whimsy or fancy.

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A fan of the American metal band Slipknot.

Patriotism is a maggot in their heads.

You can also work your way through hook baits trying double maggot or a single grain of hemp.

Double red maggot on the feeder doing the business!

The various larvae of the above series, however, have all a distinct head-capsule, which is altogether wanting in the degraded fly maggot.

Baits are now very much smaller with single maggot or caster working well, punch bread is also worth a go!

Andy caught most of his fish on the feeder, using worm with a few fish also taken on the float fishing maggot.

Doing so will increase the risk of root maggot.

Bait wise, paste, corn, meat, worm and maggot are all working as are boilies and banded pellet.

The method to use is groundbait feeder with maggot flouro pinkie or worm hook bait with match weights going to 24lb.

Red maggot with chopped worm mixed in with the ground bait is the killer with anglers taking up to 10 slabs at a sitting.

Among other notable Lepidopterous pests are the " surface larvae " or cutworms (Agrotis spp.), the caterpillars of various Noctuae; the codling moth (Carpocapsa pomonella), which causes the maggot in apples, has now become a universal pest, having spread from Europe to America and to most of the British Colonies.

Maggot is the favorite bait if you 're trotting a stick float, as just about everything will take it.

The study of the physiology of ecdysis in its simpler forms has unfortunately been somewhat neglected, investigators having directed their attention chiefly to the cases that are most striking, such as the transformation of a maggot into a fly, or of a caterpillar into a butterfly.

These differences in larval form depend in part on the surroundings among which the larva finds itself after hatching; the active, armoured grub has to seek food for itself and to fight its own battles, while the soft, defenceless maggot is provided with abundant nourishment.

The caterpillar, or the maggot, is a specialized larval form characteristic of the most highly developed orders, while the campodeiform larva is the starting-point for the more primitive insects.

Bionomically, metamorphosis may be defined as the sum of adaptations that have gradually fitted the larva (caterpillar or maggot) for one kind of life, the fly for another.

Top Pond Terry Jones Senior caught lots of roach and a carp of 12lbs on pole and maggot hook bait.

Third place came from peg 35 on the field pond, John Sutton claimed this with 45lb 12oz also using the maggot feeder.

Fishing light floats and feeding hemp, the pair fished double maggot on the hook and had bream to over 6lb.

Pete float fished single red maggot 2 rod out catching all his fish just on bottom.

Fishing a 9m pole to open water, Tom fished corn on the hook feeding red maggot.

Just this morning we found a small white "maggot like" thing hanging out of her "you know where".

The great pest of the tribe is a maggot of the leaf-ruining fly, which may be kept at bay by occasional dustings of soot.

The recent discovery of a bloodsucking maggot, which is found in native huts throughout the greater part of tropical and subtropical Africa, and attacks the inmates when asleep, is of great interest.

In the case of the common drone-fly, Eristalis tenax, the individual, from a sedentary maggot living in filth, without any relations of sex, and with only unimportant organs for the ingestion of its foul nutriment, changes to a creature of extreme alertness, with magnificent powers of flight, living on the products of the flowers it frequents, and endowed with highly complex sexual structures.

As an extreme contrast to this After Westwood, c am odeif orm type, we take the maggot Modern Classification.

Towards the end of July sheep are all dipped to protect them from maggot flies (which are generally worst during August) with materials containing arsenic and sulphur, like that of Cooper and Bigg.

In conjunction with the association mentioned above of the most highly developed imaginal with the most degraded larval structure, it indicates clearly that the active, armoured grub preceded the sluggish soft-skinned caterpillar or maggot in the evolution of the Hexapoda.

The eruciform larva of the Orthorrhapha leads on to the headless vermiform maggot of the Cyclorrhapha, and in the latter sub-order we find metamorphosis carried to its extreme point, the muscid flies being the most highly specialized of all the Hexapoda as regards structure, while their maggots are the most degraded of all insect larvae.