Maggot - Maggot

Japanese: ウジ - うじ
Maggot - Maggot

A common name for the larvae of mainly flies in the order Diptera of the class Insecta. Fly larvae are usually headless, milky white, and highly elastic. They infest animal droppings, corpses, septic tanks, rotting matter, and garbage dumps, and are important pests from a sanitary perspective; in the past they infested open wounds on people, causing myiasis. The maggots known as sashi and used as fishing bait are mainly the larvae of blowflies. Sashi was a traditional name for small flies such as fruit flies, but has been used as another name for maggots since the Edo period. Onaga maggots, which infest septic tanks and sewers, have a long, thin tail and are the larvae of hoverflies.

[Takehiko Nakane]

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

昆虫綱双翅(そうし)目のおもにハエ類の幼虫の俗称。ハエ類の幼虫は、普通前方が細くて頭がなく、乳白色でよく伸縮する。動物の糞(ふん)、死体、便池、腐敗物、ごみ溜(ため)などに発生し、衛生上重要な害虫であり、かつては人の開放された外傷の傷口などに発生して蠅咀(ようそ)症をおこすこともあった。サシという名で釣りの餌(えさ)にされているウジは、主としてキンバエ類の幼虫である。サシは古くはショウジョウバエなどの小形のハエ類の呼称であったが、江戸時代ごろからウジの別名として用いられた。便池や下水などに発生するオナガウジは、細長い尾があり、ハナアブ類の幼虫である。

[中根猛彦]

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