The woman told doctors her headache was severe and had lasted all day. That’s when they removed her hearing aid and discovered the fruit fly larvae. Doctors found the maggot moving around in her ear ...

Maggots, those white, squirmy, wormy things, are the larval form of the Diptera species. In other words, they are baby flies. It turns out they really thrive in chronic, poorly healing wounds — ...

A maggot is a larva of the common fly. Maggots have soft bodies and no legs, so they look a bit like worms. They usually have a reduced head that can retract into the body. Maggot commonly refers to ...