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While most of us have an aversion to maggots, there's an entomologist from UC Davis who loves them. Rebecca O'Flaherty wants kids to love maggots too. She invented "Maggot Art" to teach kids that a larva most people associate with road kill is actually an amazing creature.
Broadcast History
February 16, 2007 on KXJZ, Sacramento.
March 29th, 2007 on NPR's All Things Considered.
Transcript
Female voice: So you guys ready for your maggots?
30 excited kids: Yeah!!!
Female voice: Be ready, when I put him on your page he?s going to start moving around.
Rebecca O?Flaherty is handing out maggots to a classroom of 30 5th graders at Woodridge Elementary school in North Sacramento. Students are sitting at their desks with pieces of white paper, mini-paper cups containing red, blue and yellow water-based paint and tweasers.
So I?m going to give you a maggot and I?m going to put him on your piece of paper and then it?s going to be your job to pick him up and put him in the paint and so once he?s got a little bit of paint on him then you?ll put him back on the page and he?ll start crawling around.
These are clean maggots, or baby flies, that O?Flaherty has raised in a lab. One of the students, Jaisun Barham, has just dipped his maggot into a cup of blue paint and is watchin...
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While most of us have an aversion to maggots, there's an entomologist from UC Davis who loves them. Rebecca O'Flaherty wants kids to love maggots too. She invented "Maggot Art" to teach kids that a larva most people associate with road kill is actually an amazing creature. Steve Milne (MILL-nee) reports.
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