https://www.pitara.com/tags/smell/Recent content in Smell on Pitara Kids NetworkHugoen-usSun, 14 Jun 2026 08:10:32 +0530https://www.pitara.com/science-for-kids/planet-earth-for-kids/stinking-plants/Tue, 11 Sep 2001 15:38:50 +0000https://www.pitara.com/science-for-kids/planet-earth-for-kids/stinking-plants/<p>A blow-fly was looking for an ideal place to lay eggs. Like rotting meat. So that when her little maggots were born, they could feed on the meat.</p> <p>As she turned a corner in the grassland, she smelt something stinking in the air. The smell of rotten meat! With great joy she perched on it and laid her eggs. She was happy that her children would have enough food to eat.</p> <p>The blow-fly did not know she had made a great mistake. What she had sat upon was not meat but a flower, which stinks. It is called a carrion flower.<br> So, when the blow-fly&rsquo;s eggs hatched and the little maggots came out, they had nothing to eat. They died of starvation.</p>