Originally Posted by
93hondablk
Yea I'm talking about a sealed never open can. Like lets say you find one in a cabin in the woods thats over 20 years old...Its still sealed, so how does the food turn to maggots
Originally Posted by
Red X
foods can contain maggot eggs. I believe maggots can flourish in anoxic environments, therefore I think food can turn into maggots if there's as little as one maggot egg in there from the get-go.
maggots = fly larvae
so 1 maggot egg = 1 maggot = one dead fly if it never gets out
for food to become infested with maggots flys must have laid eggs there at some point. The eggs then hatch. They can not get into a can of food unless they were there from the beginning. While I would not eat a 20 year old can of food I found in the woods...I would not expect there to be maggots in there (at least not living).