But a third friend disagrees. He maintains that there are live fly eggs on or in most meat and other food that can survive freezing, and will happily begin to develop, given the right environment (i.e., allowing the meat or food to rot at room temperature before cooking).
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Water now becomes your top priority. Think in 3s: you can live three hours without decent protection from extreme heat or cold; three days without water; but you can survive for three weeks without food. Get your priorities straight. You must find water. 4) FOOD: Energy is needed even more so if your plan involves self-rescue.
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Turned out we missed a few pounds of hamburger patties under the frost in the back of the mini-freezer. When we opened the fridge, the meat was quite rancid, but no maggots were to be seen-the seal on the fridge was good enough to keep flies out.
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But remember, you can survive much longer without food than without water, and your body has plenty of reserves of both muscle and fat to work through. If water is in short supply, restrict your eating, especially of too much protein, which requires more water to digest.
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Garth. 22-03-2002, 10:31. I use maggots a lot, for all species, and I am of the opinion that it does not make the slightest bit of difference to the fish whether they are dead or alive, and therefore its all down to making it the easiest for the angler. Freezing is the best way to kill them. craftyangler. 22-03-2002, 16:17.
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I once read someone quoting, live maggots are better than dead maggots, but dead maggots are better than no maggots. Only freeze them once though, if you thaw them and then re-freeze them, they will miraculously turn into a lovely brown sludge next time you defrost them.
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Id personally riddle the caster of and put them in the fridge, then give the rigglers a new bed to play in. Carpmad. 19-03-2002, 20:47. would do mate only my maggot riddle seams to have found a new home at the local dump, and the fridge is a no go, the bait freezer is mine.
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The snowdrops survive because the snow insulates them against the frost. Naked man would die in such snow in a matter of minutes. I have seen puffins flapping awkwardly among icebergs and gale-force-nine Arctic waves during a torrential storm, but apparently loving every minute of it. We were over 500 miles from land.
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The meat was completely rotten (no surprise) and absolutely swimming with maggots. Hundreds, if not thousands, of them. I maintain that, despite the freezer's seal, a live fly must have smelled the meat, gotten in there, laid eggs, and started the reproductive cycle 'o flies in the freezer after it had thawed.
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If you're short of time or have a very small memory, this is the page to remember. Many people make the mistake in life-or-death situations of getting their priorities wrong, so the logical place to start this book, before we get to the heart of survival, is to grasp these simple life-saving priorities.
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can maggots survive freezing
No,  maggots cannot survive freezing. No, maggots cannot survive freezing. No, Maggots can not survive freezing. 