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This chapter is all about flies, and other insects that help in crime scene investigation. - Mature flies lay eggs in dead bodies. - The most common places for a fly to lay eggs in a dead body are in the mouth, nose, and eyes. - This happens all within a few hours of death. - When these eggs hatch, they are in maggot form. Maggots do not resemble flies at all, and are the size of a grain of rice. - They grow rapidly, due to the large amount of rotting flesh that they eat each day. - The more humid the climate is, the more rapidly the maggots consume and grow. - Although the maggots deface the bodies sometimes beyond the point of recognition, they provide an extremely accurate estimation for the time of death of the victim.