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Maggot Observation
- Touch:
- Sight:
- Looks a light brownish color, with a clear body
- It has a tail and little feet at the bottom of its body
- It moves by expanding its body and retracting it
- Seems to stop moving after you touch it
- Inside, it appears to have a black tip at the front and the back of its white body.
- Body is about 1.5 cm in body length when fully stretched, 3 cm including the tail. 1 cm in length when it’s at rest and not moving
- Appears to have no eyes, moves around by the sense of touch. It doesn’t avoid the wooden chips, it goes through it or moves it out of the way.
- When its body stretches out, a tongue or some kind of touch receptor comes out to sense what’s in front of it.
- Likes to move toward the edges of the container
- Can climb; escaped the container a couple of times
- What does it eat?
- What environment best suits this organism?
- How does it see/sense its surroundings?
- How does it reproduce?
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