do maggets live in meat?

Question

the reason i ask is because i found maggets on some meat in a in an ice box freezer that had no power to it for over a week and the door had not been open untill i open it.

Answer 1

No, maggots are the larvae of flies. The ONLY way to find maggots is where flies have previously laid eggs. I'll bet there are one or more fly carcasses in or around the same refrigerator.

Early scientists believed that maggots spontaneously generated in rotting meat. It wasn't until the 19th century that Louis Pasteur proved this theory incorrect.

Answer 2

Maggots In Meat

Answer 3

Maggots do not live in meat. They have to be placed there by flies. Look up Pastuer's experiment on spontaneous generation. You will see that he proved that they aren't in there with cheesecloth and meat.

Answer 4

maggots are fly larvae. some species of flies will lay their eggs in decaying plant and animal matter (meat included). depending on the temperature, the eggs hatch in a day or two and the maggot emerge. the maggots then gorge on the rotting material until they grow large enough to pupate. they then hatch and become adult flies.

if you put a piece of meat in a jar and cover the jar with a cheesecloth secured with a rubber band, youll see flies land on the top as the meat becomes smelly and rancid. it wouldnt be surprising to see them lay fly eggs on the top of the jar, but unless the flies have physical contact with the meat, the meat will not become maggot infested.

Answer 5

No, maggots are the larva stage of flies and appear on exposed meat because they were originally eggs dropped there by a mature female fly

Answer 6

No maggots do not live in meat. Maggots come from flyss. When a flie lands on any type of food it leaves maggots behind and if the maggots live long enough on the food they turn into flies.
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Answer 7

Normally only if it is rancid, and only if an adult blow fly lays thier eggs on it. A normal housefly cannot put maggots in meat (or anything for that matter), only a blow fly.

Answer 8

No they come from eggs laid by fly's in the environment. The lay eggs in decomposing food so the larvae (maggots) can feed as they grow. Then will metamorph into fly's like caterpillars morph into butterfly's.

Answer 9

well, the fly has to lay the microscopic egg first, but then they feed off the meat, until they grow into fly and tries to lay it's eggs. ... so for a time, yes

Answer 10

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The "environment", or the jars. Each jar had meat. The only thing changing is the jar open or closed.