How do flies/maggots spawn out of rotten or left over food

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Like, if you have a leftover piece of meat and just leave it in your house, sooner or later maggots/flies are going to be coming out of it even if there were no (visible) flies in the house previously.

Where do the original maggots even come from?

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Anonymous 0 Comments

They come from flies that you just didn’t see, there was a famous experiment by Francesco Redi that proved that rotten meat in a sealed container did not generate maggots bc there was no way for a fly to enter

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