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verreauxi said:
An interesting question of which I didn't know the answer to and thus sent me to google. Apparently, the difference is that many flies will lay eggs in dead animals and their larvae (maggots) will eat the dead flesh, but there are only a few flies that will lay eggs in living tissues and whose larvae will eat living tissue. I guess this issue for ranchers is that if their cow or goat gets a small abrasion on their leg (and this goes unnoticed and they otherwise seem fine), they are susceptible to these flies laying eggs in that wound and the larvae will hatch and eat inward creating a lethal condition.
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If you watch veterinary programmes in the UK (eg. The Yorkshire Vet) you will see fly infestations in animal wounds are quite common. Getting the maggots out before they cause lasting damage is sometimes a bit gruesome, but necessary.
 

RufusCat said:
Used to be an outside area that wasn't as bad.
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Wasn't the case now - 20 or so gates (with A/B ones included) and no place to even move, while having all the cafes and all that next to each other. Or maybe it still has that but I didn't want to have to trample 500 people to move 10 metres, who knows :lol:

Lucky for us it was a night trip - they made us stand outside on a little ramp for about 20 min after "boarding started" as there wasn't an available shuttle and that would've been hell during the day.
 
verreauxi said:
An interesting question of which I didn't know the answer to and thus sent me to google. Apparently, the difference is that many flies will lay eggs in dead animals and their larvae (maggots) will eat the dead flesh, but there are only a few flies that will lay eggs in living tissues and whose larvae will eat living tissue. I guess this issue for ranchers is that if their cow or goat gets a small abrasion on their leg (and this goes unnoticed and they otherwise seem fine), they are susceptible to these flies laying eggs in that wound and the larvae will hatch and eat inward creating a lethal condition.
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Having grown up on a farm with sheep, this was a big issue, and remains a big issue.
 

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