Maggots were munching their way through the carcass, delighted by the sustenance, unaware it was caused by suburban drivers' inattention. A rabbit had been run over, and its entrails would provide a home for dozens of insects, not just maggots, but also those that fed upon them. Parasitoid wasps and predatory tiger beetles ate the maggots, who were themselves eating rabbit carrion. Through time, the maggots would eat themselves into adulthood. They would pupate through winter, feeding different parasitoids, until a few lucky ones survived to adulthood, to break through their pupae and pump hemolymph through their bodies. Those flies would be their namesakes, flying off in search of other dead vertebrates. A single dead rabbit would morph into hundreds of new, smaller lives. Even after one is gone, they still have value.
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