Really random but.rs?

 

maggots may have already been in the can

 

Are you meaning a sealed can of food? Not one that has been covered after opening? If so that is nasty because that means the eggs were in the food from the beginning. But if the food inside ever got contact with the air then obviously flies laid eggs and created maggots.

 

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

 

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 two maggot eggs in there from the get-go.

 

mmmm maggot eggs!

 

reminds me of this :beurk:

https://www.honda-acura.net/forums/s...ght=cereal+bar

 

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?

 

probably not. They are the larval form of a fly and therefore infertile. If somehow they reached adulthood in the can then they could reproduce. But I don't think the adult fly could survive in those conditions.