screwworm


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  1. old word screwworm new world screwworm the larva of the fly Cochliomyia hominivorax or Chrysomya bezziana . The larva can be parasitic in humans and animals and are distinctive in eating living flesh of mammals unlike most maggots which eat only dead flesh
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