Maggots are decomposers and help to recycle nutrients.
The undergroud is an advantage to maggots because maggots like the dark and it has lots of nutrients ( like dead bodies) that they need to grow into flies. Also predators can't see them.
No they will not. Although maggots can eat sugar, they prefer rotting flesh and fruits for the bacteria which provide them nutrients.
Are maggots unicellular?
Some maggots such as housefly maggots prefer decomposing meat or flesh. Although some maggots live in decomposing logs or trees. These are just a few places where maggots live.
No , maggots are from flies
Err no. Maggots are the beginning stage of flies. Flies lay the eggs, which then hatch into larve that later become Maggots.
rotting flesh and other maggots
We are born with parasites, not maggots.
A maggot is an insect.
Maggot is a general term for the larval form of an insect. They appear 2-5 days after an adult insect lays its eggs. In the case of a deceased animal, flies are usually the source of maggots. The flies lay their eggs after being drawn to the smell of rotting flesh. The eggs hatch into maggots and they get their nutrients from eating the body. This also aids in decomposition. Actually there is a field of forensics called forensic entymology or solving crimes by observing the insects/larva on a body. Each insect has a specific life cycle and the time it takes for the larva to hatch can be diagnostic.
Flies lay their eggs and they hatch as maggots