Fly Maggot Description

The unknown specimen is tan in coloring, but also translucent as one can see through the outer layer.  The specimen’s body looks like a meal worm body, although, has a long tail- like appendage at the posterior of the body. The tail-like appendage is thick at the base and becomes thinner until the end, which has a black color. The beginning of tail starts in the middle of the specimen’s body. The movement of the body can be described as slow, as it only moves in short distances. The specimen has eight short legs. The specimen seems to be attracted to the wood chips in the glass holder. When there is movement unknown to the specimen, it becomes docile and curls up into a ball.  As observed, the specimen can roll itself over if in its back. It is bilateral symmetrical. The unknown specimen is about 15 mm in length, although, if movement is occurring the specimen is about 17-20 mm as it extends its anterior during movement. The thickest width of the body is 3 mm. The posterior tail-like appendage is 23 mm in length. Therefore, the specimen’s full length from the anterior to the posterior is about 38 mm.  In order to identify the specimen I would ask certain questions. My first question would be: what type of environment does this unknown specimen live in? Is this specimen fully grown into its adult life? If the adult description different than the stage the specimen is at now? After carefully analysis of the unknown specimen, it was found the identity was a fly maggot.