{"617578":{"#nid":"617578","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Thousands of Writhing Maggots Create the World\u0027s Creepiest Fountain","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThat\u0026#39;s what scientists found while studying the dinnertime of black soldier fly larvae, or maggots. When vast quantities of these larvae feed together, their surging movement around their food creates a living fountain of writhing bodies. That may sound revolting, but the strategy makes maggots uniquely efficient at devouring meals en masse, scientists reported in a new study. [Ear Maggots and Brain Amoeba: 5 Creepy Flesh-Eating Critters] Larvae of the black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens) typically hatch, live and eat together in the hundreds and thousands, and each voracious grub can consume up to twice its body mass in a day, lead study author Olga Shishkov, a doctoral candidate in mechanical engineering at \u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech\u003C\/strong\u003E, told Live Science. Shishkov works with mechanical engineering professor David Hu, who holds concurrent appointments in the Schools of Biological Sciences and of Physics. Story was also covered by \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/science\/fountain-of-maggots-devour-pizza-in-just-2-hours-reveal-unique-way-fly-larvae-feed\u0022\u003EFox News\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.sciencefriday.com\/segments\/if-you-give-a-maggot-a-cookie\/\u0022\u003EScience Friday\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"30678","created_gmt":"2019-02-11 15:03:13","changed_gmt":"2019-02-11 15:07:33","author":"A. Maureen Rouhi","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"in solidarity","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/64691-maggot-fountains.html","dateline":{"date":"2019-02-06T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2019-02-06T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"617577":{"id":"617577","type":"image","title":"One maggot can eat twice its body mass in one day. (Credit: Shishkov and Hu, GeorgiaTech)","body":null,"created":"1549897175","gmt_created":"2019-02-11 14:59:35","changed":"1549897175","gmt_changed":"2019-02-11 14:59:35","alt":"single maggot can eat twice eats body weight in one day","file":{"fid":"235068","name":"2019 David Hu maggots feeding..PNG","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/2019%20David%20Hu%20maggots%20feeding..PNG","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/2019%20David%20Hu%20maggots%20feeding..PNG","mime":"image\/png","size":272635,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/2019%20David%20Hu%20maggots%20feeding..PNG?itok=qlhC5s6u"}}},"media_ids":["617577"],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"126011","name":"School of Physics"}],"categories":[{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"}],"keywords":[{"id":"180460","name":"how maggots feed"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}