How To Use Maggot In A Sentence

Long pole holding back maggots good.
The source of the trouble lies to the north, where it spews its venom throughout the Great Kingdom, breeding dissension as rotten meat breeds maggots.
This insect is the maggot of the eggs laid by sawflies or carpenter bees in the freshly-cut cane of the rose after pruning.
The name memorialized the maggot emerging from poor Liliths topaz-studded nostril. Dancing with Werewolves
Because fruit and vegetable waste goes in the brown bin and sits there for up to two weeks, maggots and fruit flies end up in it.

There was ‘ongoing risk that residents' open wounds can become flyblown and infested with maggots’.
A catepillar, a maggot and a tadpole is still an individual life, regardless of its stage of development. Think Progress » 128.
My force was standing knee-deep in mutilated bodies, surrounded by the guttural moans of dying people, looking into the eyes of children bleeding to death with their wounds burning in the sun and being invaded by maggots and flies," he later wrote. Bystanders to Genocide
The Island newspaper in particularly is openly contemptuous of the ‘political maggots’ that inhabit parliament and has repeatedly appealed for someone of incorruptible morals to save the nation.
When maggots have completed their development they convert their last larval skin into a puparium, a hardened shell within which the pupa develops.
What will I not give to have Gargantua see us while we are in this maggotty crambo-vein! Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
The stream was no more than five foot wide and a foot deep, but while I was after chub and wild brown trout with free-lined worms, maggots and breadflake, I also took a number of large dace.
Rat-tailed maggot larvae may be found in drains, waste waters, liquid manure, slurry tanks or ditches.
The use of liquid insecticide placed in the furrow with the seed has gained in popularity over the last few years as a convenient and inexpensive method to achieve wireworm and seedcorn maggot control.
Fishing a groundbait feeder with casters and red maggot he found lots of small fish for a winning 8lb 15 oz net.
With the rise in temperatures and the warmer weather, infestations of the rat-tailed maggot have been reported and farmers are being warned to be on the look-out for them in buildings, drains and gullies.
The maggots eat his flesh. Christianity Today
It seems impossible to avoid the conclusion that the active, armoured campodeiform grub differing less from its parent than an eruciform larva differs from its parent, is as a larval type more primitive than the caterpillar or maggot. The Life-Story of Insects
The usual food was mutton swimming in fat, in which maggots were commonly seen. Times, Sunday Times
The three main insect pests that damage apple fruits are apple maggot flies, plum curculio, and codling moth.
What was decomposing the carcasses, given the total absence of fossils of the larger flies, such as flesh flies and blowflies (whose larvae, which we call maggots, feed on carrion)?
The scientists say similar decoys can be tailor-made for other insect pests closely related to the apple maggot fly.
Many boletes are worth eating, but their stems tend to become infested with insects or maggots and often have to be discarded.
After taking two chub, plus perch, on pole and red maggot over chopped worm a switch to chopped worm feeder brought six skimmers that gave him 13-13.
The folds of skin from the tail area are removed to stop blowflies laying eggs in lambswool, as the flesh-eating maggots which emerge can fatally wound the animals.
The chub and barbel often appear at night when they can be caught on legered meat baits or block-end feeders with maggots.
The fish were not picky with bread, luncheon meat, cat meat, worms, casters, pellets and maggots offered in various ways.
Many boletes are worth eating, but their stems tend to become infested with insects or maggots and often have to be discarded.
You look at the maggots, and say things like "ah yes, that's a 2nd instar Protophormia terranovae, from which I deduce this man has been dead for between 32 and 43 hours. State of the Brat - a check in.
The bloated and maggot-ridden bodies of 10 snakes including an eight-foot python have been found dumped in a lake at Cheney Manor.
In the hold of the Dunera they had drawn drawings, held lectures in philosophy, formed a debating society, fashioned chess sets out of maggoty bread-dough.
Suppose a wild mushroomer like me can't be too worried about maggots; to all our friends we have given mushrooms to, you have nothing to worry about. At My Table
The poor contestants had to eat maggoty, old cheese to advance.
There are three problems when growing garlic: drainage, gophers, and onion root maggots.
So in some splendid still lifes you will find blowflies sitting on a pear or the odd maggot creeping out of a peach.
The filthy maggot has his paws all over her prized weapon!
I've been devising a snack bar which uses maggots as a tasty filling. The Sun
Besides, there's plenty of information available out there to help you avoid a maggoty practice. The Sun
Apple's continued glory eats away at me like a maggot at my core.
Another biocontrol tool they're investigating is the fire ant-decapitating phorid fly, which uses the ant's head as a protective home for its developing maggot young.
Peaslee had been asked to care for another inmate named John Doton, who was "paralytic" and had maggot-infested bedsores. The Poorhouse: Aunt Winnie, Glenn Beck, And The Politics Of The New Deal
It appears that these seed applied insecticides and liquid insecticides will be effective in protecting seeds from seed feeding insects such as wireworms and seedcorn maggots.
To prevent "flystrike" (a maggot infestation caused by wrinkly skin, which was bred into the sheep so that they would have more wool), Australian ranchers perform a barbarous operation called "mulesing," which involves carving huge strips of flesh off the backs of unanesthetized lambs 'legs. PETA Latest News
Crist tell that maggot to take a flying leep off the highest empire state building. NRSC to ask for Crist donation back
Iden stretch for small fish on pole and maggot in the deeper water by lock.
At the time, it specialised in fishing equipment and its biggest seller was its range of live maggots. Times, Sunday Times
Inside it is crawling with maggot-like insects.
If the early stand loss is a result of seedcorn maggot, wireworm, grubs, or early cutworm infestation, timely response with rescue treatments may not be feasible.
A particular favorite of my brief little perusal is the following: gag a maggot off a gutwagon - Something that stinks. e.g., Taints
Non-insect creepy-crawlies include worms and mauchs (maggots). The Times Literary Supplement
Both anglers posted a score of 7lb 1oz that relied largely on maggot caught roach.
I am certain that more bream were caught on carp type baits rather than traditional bream baits like worm, caster or maggot.
Though the warning signs have been unmissable for years, many Americans are reacting to the confirmation that there is a doping scandal in baseball as if they had found maggots in Mom's apple pie.
We know them by many names: grub (beetles, bees, wasps), maggot, caterpillar (butterflies, moths), and wriggler (mosquitoes).
Three scenes in particular are almost puke-worthy: when Goldblum shows Geena Davis how “Brundlefly” eats, when Brundlefly undergoes his final metamorphosis, and, ickiest of all, when the pregnant Geena Davis experiences a dream (prophecy? flash forward?) in which she goes into labor and ends up squirting out a wriggling watermelon-sized maggot. Top 10 Most Unnerving Movie Scenes » Scene-Stealers
I recall the reminiscence of a 17-year-old medical aidman, whom I quoted in one of my books, describing the island of Peleliu: 'I am carrying this guy on the stretcher and he's been dead maybe a day and a half but already his body is covered with flies and maggots. Home | Mail Online
He and the crew have had to subsist on maggoty hardtack, cold gruel, and a slimy block of cheese that has become host to a most foul-tasting clutch of worms.
He used maggots as live bait.
I always take a variety of bait with me and will never go tenching without lobworms, casters, red maggots, white maggots, bread, mini-boilies, and luncheon meat.
Among the most destructive enemies of the apple orchard are the codling moth, various species of mites, the woolly aphid, the apple maggot, the red-banded leaf roller, and scale insects.
The British food watchdog is asking fast-food restaurants to add calorie-counts to their menus -- and want to adopt a set of "traffic light" labels that indicate dangerously high levels of salt, fat, sugar (or, presumably, eyeball-gnawing maggots, see post below). Boing Boing
You hate waste, laziness, injustice against the little man, and maggots in the garbage cans. ROSES ARE FOR THE RICH
They subsisted mostly on big maggots, called grubs, fatty pig, and sago palm, a starch. Intermittent fasting guest blog | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
Before tea time I moved around the lake and swapped some worms for maggots from a local angler.
Odd chub to swimfeeder, maggot or bread at Ironbridge.
The ham was, by this stage, specked with fungus and small white things that might have been maggots.
He was fishing on the Red Lion stretch sporting float and pole tackle with maggot for an all-roach catch.
I had to get the kick and the hit of the stuff, the crawl of the maggots, the genial brain glow, the laughter tickle, the touch of devilishness and sting, the smile over the face of things, ere I could join my fellows and make one with them. Chapter 31
I could only imagine scraping the maggots from the inside of the furs in warmer weather. A DAY AT THE FUR AUCTION • by Stephen Taylor
Quoth the merchant to himself, "This wildling is a rudesby and a maggotty head. Arabian nights. English
Fruit flies, such as the apple maggot and the cherry fruit flies, are also common orchard pests.
There are ways to deal with coddling moths and apple maggots.
He fished a groundbait feeder with maggot for eight roach and a solitary eel for 2lb 10 oz.
He was drawn over a gravel bed and used a loaded waggler float with double white maggot hookbait.
We used a variety of tactics ranging from the open-end feeder with bread to the stick float with maggots.
Lastly, the ghost from the grave came out, and being called upon by the _angakok_, he entered the house to fetch the boy, who only perceived a strong smell of maggots, and then fainted away. The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day
Since we're all maggots anyway, we should wear our maggotiness maggoty-ness? with pride. Archive 2007-06-01
Soil-applied insecticides recommended for control of rootworm larvae also may prevent early stand losses due to wireworms, grubs, seedcorn maggot, and seedcorn beetles.
Quoth the merchant to himself, This wildling is a rudesby and a maggotty head. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
We transferred the birds to the second roosting aviary and we counted the number of unconsumed maggots left on the foraging platform.
While the keen amateurs struggle with maggots and nets on the bank ... these professionals cruise by sweeping up.
The dopey looking 32 year old Labour maggot has little to fall back on but the life of a ligger. Archive 2007-12-09
Bait fishing with a float is a very enjoyable way to catch; use brandlings or maggots on size 16 hooks.
Bream, carp and roach, on pole fished bronze maggot.
Two cheeses, actually: a soft brie and a Casu Marzu - also known as Sardinian maggot cheese for the larvae whose nonstop noshing brings this formaggio to an advanced state of fermentation. Paramus Post
In maggot debridement therapy (also known as maggot therapy, larva therapy, larval therapy, biodebridement or biosurgery), disinfected fly larvae are applied to the wound within special dressings.
The men lived in draughty cells, on a diet of maggoty rice and vegetables. Times, Sunday Times
The Lonicera fly evolved as a hybrid of two existing U.S. species, the blueberry maggot and the snowberry maggot, according to the study.
He used pole and maggot in the marginal slack water for a mixed net of small roach and perch scaling 3lb 9oz.
Your every utterance is like the slithering hiss of a fat maggot in the putrid guts of a decomposing rat; your face is fouler than the unwiped inner ring of Satan's rectum. Harry Cohen MP is an odious little cunt.
Mulesing involves cutting off the skin around the buttocks of merino lambs, often without anaesthetic, to prevent "flystrike", the infestation of blowfly maggots, which thrive in the folds of the sheep and eat into its flesh. Environment news, comment and analysis from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk
He threw in a bucket of groundbait, a pint of maggots, and fished all night without a bite.
The old cheese was crawling with maggots
Maggots and their juices may even have medicinal uses beyond their flesh-eating, wound-healing ability. Times, Sunday Times
Centuries after the technique was pioneered, maggots are being used at Harrogate District Hospital in larvae therapy, to remove unhealthy tissue from wounds.
Re the maggot story: many *many* adjectives spring to mind, but I'm going to go with "resourceful"... Boy, do I feel stupid.
Larvina: a maggot: a dipterous larva without distinct head or legs. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
I ran the liquor down and joyed as the maggots mounted in my brain. Chapter 22
It was the concept of eating maggots that put me off. Times, Sunday Times
The changes that occur at metamorphosis can be rapid and dramatic, the classic examples being the metamorphosis of a caterpillar into an adult butterfly, a maggot into a fly, and a tadpole into a frog.
One University of North Texas graduate student is using black fly maggots to compost that garbage.
The Maggot was growling to himself, relishing the confrontation.
My flesh is clothed with maggots, my skin is a clod of earth: it curdles and decays.
Try fishing on the drop with maggot for the roach or on the bottom with chopped worm for the skimmers.
Near their back porch, they said, rats scamper about, and maggots slither near trash bins.
Flea beetles and root maggots, the two major radish pests, can be avoided by placing floating row cover over the bed.
Flies lay their eggs in the wool, which hatch into maggots and eat the lamb alive. Times, Sunday Times
Offering maggot over pellet and groundbait at 13 metres he had small carp to 3lb.
Both anglers used small groundbait feeders with maggot and pinkie for nets of small roach.
I thought perhaps of food, the maggoty noodles, and then I thought no, of some great feast, baskets and platters and cornucopias.
The movie was so poor an adaptation of Master and Commander as to be unrecognizable where Jack Aubrey is explaining the difference in flavor of the ‘bargemen’ – maggots that live in the ships biscuits and become more prevalent as the cruise lengthens – how some are oddly cold tasting, but harmess! Nutrition and health in agriculturalists and hunter-gatherers | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
It had crashed down into the wall five or six leagues to port, sagging broken spined withone half on the nearside and the other half on the far side, like a colossal maggot trying to wriggle over an obstacle. Alastair Reynolds, Terminal World (2010)
By the way, the word "maggot" here does not refer to an creepy crawly creature, but is a synonym for "whim. Multimedia
I wash the dirt carefully off their stems, slice away any maggoty flesh, and cook them in garlic and cream.
He was hungry, but he'd rather starve to death than eat the maggoty meat and rice the guards tossed in once a day.
The mushroom man, for instance - who also sold dates, walnuts and the best olives I've ever eaten - treated me better after an epic row over maggoty porcini which secured the refund I was after and also attracted a small approving crowd.
He was fishing on the Red Lion stretch sporting float and pole tackle with maggot for an all-roach catch.
Rat-tailed maggot larvae may be found in drains, waste waters, liquid manure, slurry tanks or ditches.
We suspect septicemia because of the maggot bites and the conditions in which he was found but we can only tell once the post-mortem results are in.
Iden stretch for small fish on pole and maggot in the deeper water by lock.
The main river is a much different prospect, with a nice variety of fish falling to maggot.
Like maggots in a muckheap, while I went cawdrife. Krindlesyke
Anyone who thinks maggots are only good for anglers' bait will be able to find out about the ‘biosurgery’ the creatures can perform.
_Caput mundi; _ but a kind of idiot head at that: inchoate, without co-ordination; maggots scampering through what might have been the brain; the life fled, and that great rebellion of the many lives which we call decay having taken its place. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19
You've got maggots eating their way through your ear. The Sun
Some are fishing inland lakes for splakes and brook trout and using mayfly wigglers, splakes, maggots & waxworms.
Rat-tailed maggots are the larvae of the drone fly and, in order to pupate the larvae, look for a dry place and start migrating.
The use of maggots is part of a larger category of medicine in which living organisms, like leeches or bees, are used as a direct part of treatment, a class of procedures known as biotherapy.
Biosurgery using larvae such as maggots for treatment of difficult wounds is now becoming an established discipline in the management of difficult wounds.
When maggots have completed their development they convert their last larval skin into a puparium, a hardened shell within which the pupa develops.
He was fishing on the Red Lion stretch sporting float and pole tackle with maggot for an all-roach catch.
He wanted to know what we did to keep root maggots out of radishes.
Let's face it, anyone that hangs around schools selling dope is a maggot and deserves to be treated as such. Archive 2007-07-01
A dirty environment is one of the factors responsible for the spread of the screwworm fly, according to experts SANAA, 11 January 2009 (IRIN) - The General Department for Animal Health and Veterinary Quarantine (GDAHVQ) in Yemen's Ministry of Agriculture has deployed 21 field teams in the northeast to combat a new outbreak of myiasis, an infestation of human or animal tissue with fly larvae (maggots). near the border with Saudi Arabia in December 2007. IRIN
Even if most people don't care to eat black radish, cabbage maggots sure love it and without a row cover a marketable crop can be almost impossible to achieve.
Root maggots in the roots of cabbage may retard the growth of the plant or it may wilt and even die.
In the corner of his parents 'bedroom he saw decayed seagull carcasses, gnats and maggots on lusterless eyes, globs of sea jelly, tangles of seaweed. Wintering at Montauk
Ever the woman whose sightless eyes ran scalding tears chanted her love-cry, ever the dancers of love danced in the warm night, and ever the calabashes went around till in all their brains were maggots crawling of memory and desire. Koolau the Leper
This year flea beetles, white grubs, seed corn maggots and wireworms generated a lot of discussion.
They look kind of ... maggoty. Times, Sunday Times
People use maggots as bait when they go fishing.
They're huge white maggots with transparent membranous skin.
In the nature of things, the art was attacked by flies and maggots, and the stench is reported to have been unendurable.
I did intend using maggot as one of the main baits but thought pre-baiting regularly with them might encourage too many of the water's small perch into the swim.
We suspect septicemia because of the maggot bites and the conditions in which he was found but we can only tell once the post-mortem results are in.
Kathleen Jamie should have used quicklime rather than caustic soda to deflesh her gannet's skull, but maggots would have been best.
On the beaches he noted black duck, grey and chestnut teal, black currawongs, blue wrens and waders feeding among bull kelp where kelp flies bred, their maggots the staple diet along the exposed coastline.
Railway Bridge area most productive with chub from Rother mouth on pole and maggot.
Maggots feeding on the carcasses could pick up the toxin and be eaten by untargeted waterbirds, especially waterfowl, causing additional deaths and creating an outbreak of avian botulism.
He used maggots as live bait.
Although the risk of injury from seedling insects such as wireworms and seed corn maggots is reduced with a later planting, there is no post-emergence treatment for these insects.
What about the hunter on safari whose handlers dress and skin the game, and take every precious morsel from the gut pile that most of use leave for the canines, buzzards and maggots? The Meat Not Eaten
These greenish larvae are typical fly maggots in appearance; legless, broadest at the tail end and tapering to a point at the head, with hook-like mouthparts.
Though it is now customary to endow maggot with a Teutonic provenance, it has also been etymologized as the Middle Welsh maceiad, akin to magiaid VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 2
I've been devising a snack bar which uses maggots as a tasty filling. The Sun
Use a little waxworm or maggot on a tiny hook and you can catch dozed through the ice. What are the best lures for ice fishing blugils?
The maggots moiled about its flesh, pixellating and transforming its appearance.
And each meeting meant a drink; and there was much to talk about; and more drinks; and songs to be sung; and pranks and antics to be performed, until the maggots of imagination began to crawl, and it all seemed great and wonderful to me, these lusty hard-bitten sea - rovers, of whom I made one, gathered in wassail on a coral strand. Chapter 16
Although the risk of injury from seedling insects such as wireworms and seed corn maggots is reduced with a later planting, there is no post-emergence treatment for these insects.
I went & saw him Sunday & he was going very maggoty because he had been shoved on the Permanent Staff.
Cyromazine is a highly effective insect growth inhibitor pesticide, widely used in livestock and poultry industry as feed additive to control the maggot growth in animal stalls.
Re the maggot story: many *many* adjectives spring to mind, but I'm going to go with "resourceful"... Boy, do I feel stupid.
He was checking for flystrike — a condition in which maggots eat away at an animal — when he lost it. Times, Sunday Times
Fishing a groundbait feeder, and alternating worm and red maggot hookbaits, he took a brace of skimmers plus three roach for his winning 3lb 15 oz.
I prefer the groundbait feeder with bread in clear water, switching to the block end filled with maggots in coloured water.
Within days fly maggots are born and release an enzyme that decapitates their ant host.
a seething mass of maggots
The closest you can get to fishing with a natural bait for these timid tench is with the humble maggot and redworm.
Mick had to fend off youngsters trying to jump onto his boat, cope with water shortages, regularly untangle his propeller, avoid a sunken portable toilet and even hide from a barrage of maggots.
His winning catch was made up of around 17 lb of carp plus skimmers and perch on pole and maggot at 14 metres.
It was an ill hour that he darkened my doors in, for, ever since that, Alan has given up his ain old-fashioned mother-wit for the tother's capernoited maggots and nonsense. Redgauntlet
This insect is the maggot of the eggs laid by sawflies or carpenter bees in the freshly-cut cane of the rose after pruning.
And each meeting meant a drink; and there was much to talk about; and more drinks; and songs to be sung; and pranks and antics to be performed, until the maggots of imagination began to crawl, and it all seemed great and wonderful to me, these lusty hard-bitten sea - rovers, of whom I made one, gathered in wassail on a coral strand. Chapter 16
After studying the seventy odd remedies proposed, Slingerland concludes that six are efficient and practicable: growing the young plants in closely covered frames; tarred paper cards placed snugly about the base of the plants to keep the fly away; rubbing the eggs from the base of the plant; hand-picking of the maggots; treating the plants with emulsion of carbolic acid; treating them with carbon bisulfide. Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)
In addition to worms and groundbait you will need some casters and red maggots when you are there.
He granted interviews to all the television stations in town and called his would-be assassins maggots. Kill the Irishman
One rod fished three maggots with three casters on the other.
It is one thing to complain about government overreach from the stump, but it's another thing to read that before salmonella killed several Americans, "barns of egg producers were infested with flies, maggots, and rodents, and had overflowing manure pits. Heather Taylor-Miesle: Tea Partiers: Be Careful What You Wish For
The theory has been that maggots are effective because they "clean out" dead tissue - a process called debridement - stimulating healing and getting rid of bugs such as MRSA in the process. BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition
Out has gone hempseed and maggots or casters, to be replaced by pellets.
Get your maggoty ass on the bus.
The coarse lake at Tewitfield continues to produce plenty of small carp, tench, roach, rudd and skimmers using maggot and casters fished on the drop.
He finished the armchair upstream of Steeton Bridge with float and maggot for six chub.
Which is strange, because it's got live maggots in it. Times, Sunday Times
There he stands, shuffling his feet, this adolescent whose potbellied father used to thrash his hide not more than half a year ago in order to train him with such methods to become a merchant in maggoty flour and mouldy jam: there he stands, moaning and groaning, this addlebrain, torturing himself as he tries in vain to remember the pertinent paragraphs of the rules that were crammed into his stupid head -- and he cannot make up his mind whether to use his hatchet on the noble don, to shout for help, or to simply wave him on his way. Hard to be a god
It was an ill hour that he darkened my doors in, for, ever since that, Alan has given up his ain old-fashioned mother-wit for the tother’s capernoited maggots and nonsense. Redgauntlet
For the modest price of a day ticket there is excellent sport available, with possible 20 lb bags of roach and dace falling to stick or pole with maggot over small helpings of groundbait.
In New England, apples on about 95 percent of unsprayed trees are typically damaged by apple maggots.
A west Wiltshire informant tells me that as a child he was cautioned against picking maggoty blackberries, ‘because the fairies had weed on them.’
The hook was baited with two maggots and the tackle fished a few inches over-depth.
Wait like bug of maggot of bee, fly, yellow pink, batty moth, cockroach, mole cricket.
I would also avoid unselective baits, such as maggots and worms, as one of the beauties of the method is that it attracts large numbers of small fish, which are likely to get to the hook bait before the target bream.
When the fish melt away, introduce a handful of maggots and the same amount of hemp on to the clear patch.
The remaining maggots that once powered his last few blurtings have all pupated and flown away. Bill O'Reilly tries to work his gruesome magic on Barney Frank.
There are menacing hyenas and a maggoty baby (both of which you'll recognize from Exorcist: The Beginning), but these aren't the moments where you feel Schrader is strongest.
It was claimed that before they were really ready for cooking, grouse should be hung until maggots dropped out of them.
Another is the use of maggots in the treatment of crush injuries to limbs. Times, Sunday Times
He threw in a bucket of groundbait, a pint of maggots, and fished all night without a bite.
Waggler or pole with bronze maggot best.
The product used now must be a dimethoate one, as it is the one that can get into the plant and kill the maggot. FWi - All News

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