Worm and maggot is a Chinese vocabulary, and its pinyin is chóng qū, which comes from Biography of Miou in the later Han Dynasty, meaning maggot and so on. Maggots are fat and white, and are often used to describe the plump and white face of beautiful women. Source: Biography of Zhou Miao in the Later Han Dynasty: "Those who plunder bitter poison are maggots of ants." Song Shaoyong's Reading Sixteen Kingdoms: "When clothes come to us, they will be covered with worms and maggots."
Liu Yuanzhi's divertimento "Righteousness and Goodness, Going to the Governor": "I can teach him to whip out worms and maggots now that his treasury is empty." Lu Xun's "Morning Flowers Pick Up in the Evening": "Although worms and maggots are unclean, they don't sound lofty." Don Zhang Kun's "Wandering Fairy Cave": "Worm and maggot face, kill Yangcheng; The silkworm thief showed me that I was fascinated by Cai. "
Maggots (Qu), Diptera, Cyclops. Because the head and mouthparts are extremely degraded, they are called headless larvae. In particular, fly maggots are rich in nutrition and good in palatability. They contain a variety of amino acids and fatty acids, as well as a large number of vitamins and trace elements, which are high-quality sources of protein.
Q maggot "name" the larva of a fly. Also refers to an insect similar to a fly maggot. Such as: maggots have a cunning heart (bad heart); Maggot heart (bad heart); Maggot fly (maggot fly); Maggot harrow (toothless harrow for stirring dung maggots). Metaphor is unreasonable, stir up trouble); Maggot skin (small useless thing) maggot (q chóng) The larva of a fly. Metaphor is disgusting; Metaphor mean person or small useless person.
Life history of worms and maggots
Flies are completely abnormal insects, and their life history can be divided into several periods: eggs, larvae, pupae and adults. Most kinds of female flies lay eggs, but some also produce larvae. Larvae becomes pupa after 3~4 days, and pupa emerges into winged adult. The food range of flies is very wide, and their feeding habits can be divided into three categories: honey-eating adult flies only feed on nectar or plant juice.
Blood-eating adult flies feed on animal or human blood, such as stable flies, commonly known as "gadflies"; Omnivorous flies eat a variety of foods, such as rotten animals and plants, human and animal food, excreta, secretions, pus and blood. Most flies fall into this category.