Viola Davis

I did everything to get food. I have stolen for food. I have jumped in huge garbage bins with maggots for food. I have befriended people in the neighborhood who I knew had mothers who cooked three meals a day for food, and I sacrificed a childhood for food and grew up in immense shame.

American Actress

Ashley Graham

My mom's parents were farmers, so every summer, my sisters and I would help out, hauling pipe and pulling maggots off the corn. We hated it, but it taught me the meaning of good hard work.

American Model

Jonathan Raban

Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't.

British Author

Karen Blixen

I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.

Danish Author

Zawe Ashton

Good writing shouldn't be wrapped in cellophane. It should be open to the elements and full of maggots and it should be left to grow and deepen and fester.

English Actress

Bear Grylls

I've eaten sheep's eyes, the still hot meat from a zebra killed by a lion, and maggots which give you 70 calories to the ounce.

British Explorer

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Not even a maggot is an it, and to refer to any animal in that manner is an affectation, an ignorant stab at science-speak.

American Author

Karl Shapiro

In the tight belly of the dead, Burrow with hungry head, And inlay maggots like a jewel.

American Poet

George Clinton

If you got maggots in your brain, everything you think is gonna be rotten.

American Musician

Dylan Thomas

But time has set its maggot on their track.

Welsh Poet

Maggots often appear on decaying matter, indicating something is dead or rotting.

Decomposition Indicator

The sight of maggots usually disgusts people; used to evoke strong emotions.

Negative Imagery

Maggots are commonly used as bait in fishing due to their wriggling motion.

Fishing Bait

Using 'maggot' to describe a person is very offensive and should be used with caution.

Strong Insult

A person called a 'maggot' is someone who is not just disliked, but despised.

Conveys Contempt

In some cultures, calling someone a 'maggot' can be especially offensive, as it suggests they are lower than insects.

Cultural Connotations

 clearing out all this of actual tissues just a bag of skin over those bones what would happen in the world what we're gonna do now is introduce some beetles domestic beetles and also knows louder beetles okay so time for the beetles let's go on they like the stage of try decay that's when they come in when the maggots ship and they should really strip any bits of sinew on those bones

Monitor Lizard...

 Rather than waste nutritious meat, the males then eat the dead cubs. Meanwhile, cannibalism is less common in birds than in other groups, but certain species will eat diseased or dead hatchlings as a way of disposing of the bodies before they can attract maggots.

Cannibalism in the...

 He said, "I'm out of here." He's going down the path. He sees something in the path. He looks, it's a dog, he drops to his knees. He sees that the dog has this big wound on its leg. The wound is just filled with maggots. He puts out his tongue

Joan Halifax: Compassion...

 deceased crocodile for instance you may not think of maggots as being especially well friendly you've probably never heard of anyone having a pet maggot for instance that's because maggots are just a transitional life stage for flies

Maggot Medicine PIPE...

 this time-lapse shows how maggots can turn a dead mouse into a tasty meal and a throw rug we realize this footage has nothing to do with burying beetles but it's way cool like the maggots we couldn't help ourselves back to the

Burying Beetles PIPE...

 predators feed they often drag the carcass so mix helping a larger chunk of meat is in the area oh yeah yeah yeah jackpot chicken oh oh yeah yeah yes and larvae kind of smells all that maggots are

Mighty Maggots PIPE The...

 the cause for concern is not his nether regions but in a leg injury in the past two days the flies have been in there they've laid their eggs and we've got some maggots I believe in there another

EWWW! Maggots Eat...

 what do you do if like for example you wake up one morning and a fly has laid a bunch of eggs in your eyeball and there's maggots growing in them when our crew members you he's sitting there with

What to do When There...

 was it was a horrible place I really don't like that it was knee-deep to waste the liquefied bat guano on top of it you've got maggots flies scorpions roaches bats Caves are dangerous places

Inside Python Infested...

 wake up one morning and a fly has laid a bunch of eggs in your eyeball and there's maggots growing in them