Ever wondered what the Irish expression ‘acting the maggot' means? You might have seen this phrase online, on a t-shirt, or even heard an Irish person say it. Maybe you were left a little bit confused ...

In its larval stage, Lucilia sericata looks unassuming enough. Beige and millimeters long, a bottle-fly grub may lack good looks, but it contains a sophisticated set of tools for eating dead and dying ...