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posted on 2019-01-18, 16:47 authored by Olga Shishkov, Michael Hu, Christopher Johnson, David L. HuLarvae in petri dishes eating chicken feed, sped up 256 times. Some larvae do not eat, while others ate for 44% of the time they are around food. The times larvae interact with food are recorded to determine that larvae eat for 5 minutes at a time, with a standard deviation of 8 minutes.