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No, maggots eat necrotic (dead) tissue. They will not eat live tissue. They are still used to clean dead skin from festering wounds to fight of infection. (Not in the U.S)

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10y ago

Maggots do not have the ability to process cellulose. Termites are capable of doing this but not the larvae of flies.

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15y ago

Woodworm.

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