Rat Tailed

The thousands of housefly larvae and rat-tailed maggots that result will be more than enough animal matter for the tilapia population. ❋ Manny Howard (2010)

Leaning out over the wooden railing of the balcony, Asmador is startled at first to see a grotesquely naked, hunchbacked, rat-tailed demon capering on the raised bridge of the trawler, cupping its misshapen genitals in one hand and gesturing lewdly toward the oblivious crewmen with the other. ❋ Jonathan Nasaw (2010)

The larvae are aquatic, often called “rat-tailed maggots,” and live in putrified liquids, like rain water in animal carcasses. ❋ Unknown (2010)

His dead white skin hosted a raging case of psoriasis and his oily dishwater-brown hair was long enough for its rat-tailed ends to twitch at my face and throat like barbs. ❋ Carole Nelson Douglas (2009)

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"This brought us to the conclusion that the presence of the rat-tailed maggots in the close vicinity of a point of water supply is not indicative of the quality of the drinking water supplied." ❋ Unknown (2006)

A "thorough" investigation into reports of rat-tailed maggots in three provinces found no evidence of contaminated drinking water, the Water Affairs department said on Friday. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Pretty gross, but at least the rat-tailed blighters are big enough to spot with the naked eye before you chug back on that glass of water ... ❋ RICHARD (2006)

There were, in chief, a basin and a jug of water and a slop-pail of tin, and, further, a piece of yellow soap in a tray, a tooth-brush, a rat-tailed shaving brush, one huckaback towel, and one or two other minor articles. ❋ Herbert George (2006)

Neither health official nor anyone else saw rat-tailed maggots coming from drinking water out of a tap. ❋ Unknown (2006)

An unusual radish species, R. caudatus, is known as the “rat-tailed radish” because it bears long edible seedpods. ❋ Harold McGee (2004)