Quote Originally Posted by Southern Young Gun View Post
just last week I asked for waxies and the guy at the bait shop replies "we dont carry em but we have maggots though". I opened the container and they were bigger than any waxies I have ever seen, and i almost exclusively use waxies when i can find em so im pretty familiar with em. been using em my whole life. The maggots werent any thicker than the waxies just alot longer. But your right in SC i have never seen maggots, only waxies but i guess down here in FLA is a diff story
I don't doubt you know what a waxworm is. I'm just doubting that the bait shop guy knows exactly what he's selling. Maybe he just calls them "maggots" because he doesn't know what else to call them. Maybe they're actually some other type of grub.

What chaunc and I are talking about are bluebottle fly larvae. Bluebottle flies lay their eggs on a dead animal. The eggs hatch and the larvae (maggots) eat the dead animal. If there's no dead animal involved, it's something other than a maggot. Typically, a bluebottle maggot will be about 3/4" long. If it's bigger than a waxworm, it's gotta be something else.