With all this talking around what's going on with the flies, we shared our models and eventually came to consensus! We extended our thinking deeper, realizing that the weight of all these things is changing, and we could model this!
Not only does the weight of the larva increase as it eats the meat, we're starting to see how this patterns transcends into other parts of our model, like with the female fly and the eggs she lays.
We're also seeing how the fly may be doing more than just laying eggs on the meat of a dead animal. We were curious if they were doing more, and with some research, we are seeing that some species of flies may actually consume the meat, too!
While we're putting all these pieces together, we're realizing we figured out a lot about flies. This means we can answer many of our questions about flies on our DQB! We are also realizing we had lots of questions about dead plants still, too, so we're figuring our next steps should be about dead plants and their parts!