Maggots will usually eat dead. Don't worry about them eating you but some cases have been reported about them eating necrotic/dead tissue on a live person. They are important to the world because they eat dead things. They have tiny tiny mouths so it will take them a long time to eat a whole dead rat or bird. They also eat ants-- I saw one chasing an ant in my house!
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It depends on which surface. On a more coarse surface, maggots will move faster whereas on a smoother surface they will move slower. This is because they have a special technique in moving whereby the head of the maggot hooks onto the surface and pulls the rest of the body after it-by a hook and pull technique. Therefore on a smoother surface, the maggot may have difficulty in moving due to the fact that it cannot hook onto anything.
Maggots don't necessarily disappear. They turn into house flies. Maggots hatch as larvae, larvae become pupae, and pupae become house flies.
No. Maggots are fly larvae. They are very similar to small white worms in appearance. They get their wings after becoming a pupae and going through metamorphosis.
I've never timed them walking but one thing I'm sure of is maggots walk uphill, always! Every time I see them they are traveling uphill.
No, they flutter and twirl. They turn warm colors if they have recently eaten. Be careful; they can digest rib meat quickly.