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Speaker highlights flies’ ecological roles and medical uses of maggots
Summary
In a Missoula Butterfly House lecture, Brenna Shea outlined flies’ roles as pollinators and decomposers, described forensic uses, and explained maggot debridement therapy and its antibiotic properties.
At a Missoula Butterfly House public lecture, former bug wrangler Brenna Shea framed flies as underappreciated but ecologically crucial insects, noting their roles in decomposition, pollination and as a food source for other animals.
Shea told the audience that flies are key pollinators in some ecosystems and offered a familiar example: “Without them though, we wouldn't have chocolate,” referring to cacao trees pollinated by tiny midges. She also described forensic uses of flies:…
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