# help me with my larvae

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**Created:** [October 4, 2001, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-my-larvae/85329 "2001-10-04T04:10:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![bloomsdaygroom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/58f4c7/32.png) [@bloomsdaygroom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bloomsdaygroom)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-my-larvae/85329/1 "2001-10-04T04:10:20Z")

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Three days ago, I Windex-ed™ a fly to death. Larvae squirmed out of its abdomen. I saved these juveniles in a small jar and have been fattening them on a diet of moistened toilet paper and peanut butter. And fat they have grown, but pupate they have not. I am waiting to see what they’ll mature into.

I thought flies laid eggs. Are there oviparous species of these pests? Or am I witness to a gruesome parasitosis?

Please,someone tell me what the stork will bring…my wife wants to throw out the increasingly vile experiment.

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**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-my-larvae/85329/2 "2001-10-04T04:42:54Z")

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Thanks for sharing.

In order:

1. Nice idea on the bug guts nurtered on moist toilet paper and peanut butter. Really.
2. You have a wife? Human? Animate?
3. Re points #1 and #2: cease reproduction efforts immediately, whether Ball jars or fly swatters are involved.

::Smack, squish::

That was good-bye.