DAY THIRTEEN: 9-30-08
As usual, they're graphic. Viewer discretion. Blah, blah, blah. OK? Now, on to the pix...
| Whole pig |  Whole pig: Not too much different from yesterday from this angle, huh? Courtesy Roger Barrett |
| More whole pig |  More whole pig Courtesy Roger Barrett |
| Front half |  Front half Courtesy Roger Barrett |
| Back half |  Back half Courtesy Roger Barrett |
| What remains of the pig's belly |  Belly area Courtesy Roger Barrett |
| Where the eyes used to be |  Where the eyes used to be Courtesy Roger Barrett |
| Dead flies among the maggots |  Dead flies among the maggots Courtesy Roger Barrett |
| Maggots piling up in the corners of the cage |  Maggots piling up in the corners of the cage Courtesy Roger Barrett |
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If you ever want to start a blow fly colony, this would be the time, when the maggots are migrating and piling up in one convenient spot. Now just add some beef liver, and in a few days, presto! You've got your own colony.
This is incredible!!!!!
This is incredible!!!!!
This is really quite a visceral (pun not intended, but enjoyed) expression of the circle of life. When taken in the highly abstract, the fact that a 150 pounds of pork left to its own devices will just crawl away in tens of pounds of maggots in tens of thousands of hopeful new lives is really rather beautiful.
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