Originally Posted by
LABARINTH
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).
Ok, instead of one egg what if there's two. Can't they reproduce and just lay more eggs? Maybe after 20 years they would all be dead, but a few months wouldn't be surprising?