Maggots Sentence Examples

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  • The maggots are tended by these nurses with the greatest care, and carried to those parts of the nest most favourable for their health and growth.

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  • Last weekend live web cams were focused on live maggots.

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  • Not to speak of insects which feed upon the pitcher itself, some drop their eggs into the putrescent mass, where their larvae find abundant nourishment, while birds often slit open the pitchers with their beaks and devour the maggots in their turn.

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  • His choice of feed for the perch swim was two bait droppers of bronze maggots with a few reds among them.

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  • Another hot method for mild winter days is a groundbait feeder attack, fished along with worm or red maggots for bream.

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  • True there are Gudgeon in these places of specimen proportions that can engulf a pretty hunky piece of meet or a mouthful of maggots.

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  • I put my lead upstream, sat back and started spraying maggots and pellet at a steady rate.

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  • Birds and / or frost may well eat / kill any residual maggots.

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  • I will use the dead maggots on the hook from time to time too.

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  • They were caught from peg seven using four white maggots on a size 14 hook tied to 6lb hook length on the feeder method.

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  • Midland Angler Top Tip The Severn still responds to bronze maggots.

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  • But you can probably get close if your orchard hygiene is impeccable and if you use traps for coddling moths and apple maggots.

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  • Lesser house fly maggots are often common in poultry and livestock manure.

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  • As it was so close, I began to feed the float line by hand with a regular, generous pinch of maggots.

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  • The groundbait is laced with casters and hempseed plus dead red pinkies and dead red maggots.

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  • Seeing a body by a large pole, they run over to find the dead repairman covered in maggots.

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  • Despite this he fished on and fed a constant trickle of maggots into his swim, with a static bait over the top.

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  • Usually when using maggots you get the odd tweaks and line pulls from small Roach and Tench, but tonight there was nothing!

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  • Wild and VERY wily, they scarpered when I threw a handful of maggots over their heads never to return.

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  • For general coarse fishing, try putting out a bed of scolded maggots mixed with maize flake and fishmeal groundbait.

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  • Barbless hooks are used so that the maggots are not damaged and the fish can be unhooked quickly.

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  • Over 10,000 enthusiasts came to see the 1.6m wonder, which many described as having ' a wafting smell of maggots '.

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  • We saw a large bin filled with rotting dead piglets amid a sea of writhing maggots.

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  • Kolbe, on the other hand, insists that the weevils are the most modified of all beetles, being highly specialized as regards their adult structure, and developing from legless maggots exceedingly different from the adult; he regards the Adephaga, with their active armoured larvae with two foot-claws, as the most primitive group of beetles, and there can be little doubt that the likeness between larvae and adult may safely be accepted as a primitive character among insects.

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  • Clinging to her hairs they are carried to the nest, where they bore into the body of a bee or wasp larva, and after a moult become soft-skinned legless maggots.

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  • Metamorphosis in Diptera is complete; the larvae are utterly different from the perfect insects in appearance, and, although varying greatly in outward form, are usually footless grubs; those of the Muscidae are generally known as maggots.

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  • Sharp to hold the maggots between their mandibles and induce them to spin together the leaves of trees from which they form their shelters, as the adult ants have no silk-producing organs.

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  • Fielde show that an ant follows her own old track by a scent exercised by the tenth segment of the feeler, recognizes other inmates of her nest by a sense of smell resident in the eleventh segment, is guided to the eggs, maggots and pupae, which she has to tend, by sensation through the eighth and ninth segments, and appreciates the general smell of the nest itself by means of organs in the twelfth segment.

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  • The yellow maggots devour the seeds and thus ruin the crop. When deformed fruits are noticed they should be picked off and burned immediately.

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  • 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.

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  • Redi, had disproved by experiment the spontaneous generation of maggots from putrid flesh, and had shown that they can only develop from the eggs of flies.

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  • Other flies of this group have the inquiline habit, laying their eggs in the galls of other species, while others again pierce the cuticle of maggots or aphids, in whose bodies their larvae live as parasites.

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  • He carefully studied also the history of the ant and was the first to show that what had been commonly reputed to be "ants' eggs" are really their pupae, containing the perfect insect nearly ready for emersion, whilst the true eggs are far smaller, and give origin to "maggots" or larvae.

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  • The maggots may pass no excrement from the intestine until they have eaten all their store of food.

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  • In the nests of Bombi are found various beetle larvae that live as inquilines or parasites, and also maggots of drone-flies (V olucella), which act as scavengers; the Volucella-fly is usually a" mimic ' vades.

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  • The first step in the scientific refutation of the theory of abiogenesis was taken by the Italian Redi, who, in 1668, proved that no maggots were "bred" in meat on which flies were prevented by wire screens from laying their eggs.

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  • Discover whether maggots show phototaxis, photokinesis, or both.

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  • Usually when using maggots you get the odd tweaks and line pulls from small Roach and Tench, but tonight there was nothing !

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