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maggots are not worms, they are the larva of flies. The flies probably laid eggs in the rubbish some time ago and the larva just now emerged. Flies do not need dead animals in which to lay eggs -- it could have been a mound of wet rubbish or a heap of damp lawn clippings.
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Riff? What did you do with your husband this time?
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Not necasserily. Maggots are just fly larva, hatched from fly egg which can be layed in almost anything the fly sees as food, not just corpes. Actually, if somethng died in the can, flys wouldn't have got to it, what with it being sealed off. So the one word answer to your question is: no.
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This happened to a girlfriend of mine when we were in high school. She freaked out so badly, she knocked over the trash can and I ended up having to help her clean the entire garage--so I know exactly how gross this can be. It's most likely that a fly laid eggs on some food leftovers that made it into the trash to hatch into larvae. Hopefully, the only thing dying was the maggots.
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It could just be one fly laying their eggs in your can, buzzed in there when you lifted the lid. The warmth gets them hatching and growing quick. Sometimes it can take just one day!
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