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And now you're taking things I say completely out of context, Galadriel.
I never said those were blow or or botflies. I said those were possibilities.
I am simply telling him to raise them to adults so we can positively ID them, and warning against identification from comparing two different species of maggots since most if not all maggots look exactly alike.
Look at the pics of the maggots that barbiecat posted and then look at the pics of your cleaned up housefly maggots. They look very similar and if they weren't cleaned, you could miss the row of hooks. Plus, the low res camera doesn't help.
I am by no means a google expert. Since you know I'm 19, I'm assuming you've read some of my other posts and know about my internship. I assure you, I wouldn't be able to get an internship like this if I were meer a google-expert like you claim.
For those of you that don't know: I will be starting as an intern zookeeper at Blank Park Zoo in Des Moines, Iowa the week of September first. I've been working on this for two years, making the contacts and getting the references to make this possible.
I've worked with vets of all types (farm and reptile...oddly enough, no family pet vets :? ).
However, like I've been saying all along...there is NO way to POSTIVELY ID those from the pics given. He'd have to have a hell of a lot higher resolution than what he has and a good macro lens to get pics of what we need to positively ID those.
And this is what I said...Galadriel said:
I said the maggots resembled those of tachnid flies...I never said they were.Evil Cheshire said:
I never said those were blow or or botflies. I said those were possibilities.
I am simply telling him to raise them to adults so we can positively ID them, and warning against identification from comparing two different species of maggots since most if not all maggots look exactly alike.
Look at the pics of the maggots that barbiecat posted and then look at the pics of your cleaned up housefly maggots. They look very similar and if they weren't cleaned, you could miss the row of hooks. Plus, the low res camera doesn't help.
I am by no means a google expert. Since you know I'm 19, I'm assuming you've read some of my other posts and know about my internship. I assure you, I wouldn't be able to get an internship like this if I were meer a google-expert like you claim.
For those of you that don't know: I will be starting as an intern zookeeper at Blank Park Zoo in Des Moines, Iowa the week of September first. I've been working on this for two years, making the contacts and getting the references to make this possible.
I've worked with vets of all types (farm and reptile...oddly enough, no family pet vets :? ).
However, like I've been saying all along...there is NO way to POSTIVELY ID those from the pics given. He'd have to have a hell of a lot higher resolution than what he has and a good macro lens to get pics of what we need to positively ID those.
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