Abnormally Large Maggots?
Well here's the thing. I was bored, so I decided to try an experiment. There was a dead lizard I found, it was still fresh. I don't know how it died. I put the lizard in a pickle jar with the lid screwed on tight. I poked 1 pin-sized hole in the lid, and I put the jar in a dark and dry place outside.
I came back the next day to examine it. There were little nats inside the jar, and little maggots. The 3rd day I check it, and the maggots are quite huge. A little larger than a grain of rice.
Now this is what confuses me. These maggots are larger than the nats themselves. Are they larger because they had a lot to eat? The maggots are way too big to get out of the hole. If they hatch, are they going to be an abnormally large nat fly?
This is very interesting...
I misspelled nats... it's Gnats. 
The maggots are most likely from the eggs of a regular-sized fly of some sort, laid on the dead lizard's body before you found it. The eggs hatch into maggots, which have 3 stages of growth before they pupate. First stage is the smallest and called 1st instar. Then 2nd instar, then 3rd instar, each larger than the previous. Then the 3rd instar pupates and appears to dry out, Then later it hatches and an adult fly emerges. The gnats are unrelated to the maggots and probably entered through the pin holes you made in the jar lid.
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