What are maggots?are they unhatched baby flies

Question

where do they come from. what would make them attracted to a garbage can?

Answer 1

Flies lay eggs on the garbage (or dead animals), and the egg hatches into a maggot. They are absolutely DISGUSTING--pour bleach on them to kill them!

Answer 2

Maggots are the larvae of flies. Think of them like caterpillers. When they are old enough, they become butterflies, same with the maggots, but they become flies. They are usually found it the corpses of dead animals, rotten food, especially meat, etc, as this is what flies eat.

Answer 3

They come from fly eggs.

Flies lay eggs at a rich food source.

they hatch into larvae, (maggots).

If they find enough to eat, the pupate and turn into flies.

Answer 4

Fly larva.