The primitive, carrion-breeding habit of blowflies has been known, recorded and used for medical purposes for centuries past. The aboriginal Ngemba tribe of New South Wales, Australia commonly used maggots to clean suppurating or gangrenous wounds, a practice which they traced back to their remote ancestors [1]. The Hill people of Northern Burma were observed during World War II placing maggots...

BACKGROUND The green bottle fly maggot, Lucilia sericata, is a species with importance in medicine, agriculture and forensics. Improved understanding of this species' biology is of great potential benefit to many research communities. MicroRNAs (miRNA) are a short non-protein coding regulatory RNA, which directly regulate a host of protein coding genes at the translational level. They have been...

Baited pesticide-treated biodegradable spheres were evaluated for their efÞcacy to control and monitor apple maggot, Rhagoletis pomonella (Walsh), and blueberry maggot, R. mendax Curran, ßies. A Plexiglas pane treated with sprayable Tangle-Trap was found to be an effective technique for assessing the fate of Rhagoletis ßies encountering treated spheres. SigniÞcantly more R. pomonella and R. men...

Maggots of the blowfly Lucilia sericata are used for the treatment of chronic wounds. As haemostatic processes play an important role in wound healing, this study focused on the effects of maggot secretions on coagulation and fibrinolysis. The results showed that maggot secretions enhance plasminogen activator-induced formation of plasmin and fibrinolysis in a dose- and time-dependent manner. B...

Abstrak: Sampah Organik merupakan permasalahan besar yang belum mampu diselesaikan oleh pemerintah dan masyarakat. Pengabdian masyarakat ini bertujuan meningkatkan keterampilan dalam mengolah sampah mengurangi organik dengan cara memanfaatkannya sebagai pakan maggot. Maggot larva dari lalat BSF memiliki protein tinggi, nilai jual tinggi. dapat mengurai organikdengan efektif, sehinggabudidaya ma...

This Dutch study reports the results of using maggots to treat Gram-positive and Gramnegative infected wounds in 16 patients, half of whom had suffered trauma. The authors stress the limitations of this trial as it was an open label, non-comparative cohort study in design, and all patients with a severe wound infection were treated with antibiotics. However, even though no definite conclusions ...