Quote Originally Posted by wolfy-hound View Post
Flies can get into tiny crevices. Unless you have an airtight bin for the snake, the bug could have gotten in and back out. It might not have been a big house fly but a smaller type, but even houseflies squeeze through tiny spaces.

I would tend to think it's way more likely for a fly to get in and back out, rather than fly eggs managing to survive the stomach acid to hatch. But technically a live rat could have had some fly eggs stuck to the fur and then they survive the stomach acid and don't fall off or come off in the stomach or throat and so are still on the slimy regurgitated rat, and viable... and then hatched.
Possibly.

These maggots were quite large(a little smaller or equal size to botfly larvae). Larger than the air holes, which makes me think your secondary hypothesis. Unless the larvae stage is bigger than the adult stage?? Or they have a really fast growth rate in the past 2 days ......


Either way, it was one of the nastiest things I've ever seen and I've seen quite a lot of gruesome stuff that didn't bother me. I just hope not have a repeat experience again......

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