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[โ€“] Devi@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maggots are the things that breakdown dead stuff, without them you'd have dead animals and plants rotting on the ground for ages while the bacteria breaks them down slowly. I think the whole world would smell worse.

These are maggots that get laid in your skin specifically. Look up "bot flies"

Fungi do most of the rotting anyway.