The Return Of The Plague

Of maggots.  This time not in the house though, it's much, much nastier - they were on one of our rabbit's bum.  Yes, Riff-Raff has fallen prey to the dreaded fly strike after getting a bit of a bad stomach.  Fortunately we spotted it really early and it looks like he should be OK.  It's pretty nasty though as you can imagine.  There's nothing I enjoy more of an evening than peering at a stinky rabbit bottom and then seeing hundreds of tiny maggots in there too.  Yeuchk.

I did learn one interesting blow-fly fact though while trawling the Internet for clues.  For 'tis the blow-fly that causes fly strike.  It turns out that blow flies, which as we all know have medicinal uses (maggot therapy anyone?) are in fact blue bottles.  And green bottles.  But not beer bottles, sorry Ned.  So in essence, they are just, well, flies.  In fact a blow fly is any fly that lays it's eggs on meat.  So there you go, don't say you never learn anything when you read this.