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[buzz killington]

I seem to have exhausted the supply of purring maggots at the bottomless pit after a decade of trapping - somewhere around 160.  Not that I need more, but will more ever come back?

[Duke 2.0]

 Generally animals have a limited population, as Toady has yet to work in reproduction outside of your fortress. However, nobody has done studies on vermin as they act more like items and not like real animals. What makes this more strange is that generally in a world there are millions upon millions of such vermin.

[Bouchart]

There isn't much information available on this sort of thing, but vermin, in general, seem to be inexhaustible.

What you might try to do is catch vermin on other areas of the map.  There might be some limit to the total number of vermin that can be on the map, and all of the other vermin are preventing purring maggots from spawning.

[Skorpion]

Not quite inexhaustible. I've fished out brooks of vermin-fish, to the point of pulling out every single turtle available.

Of course, the bottomless pit in my current fort has been 'fished' out of any creatures, due to them falling down the damn bottomless pit it empties into.

[jokermatt999]

The Most Interesting Dwarf in the World topic seems to imply that vermin can become extincted as well. I believe Martin mentioned running out of fire snakes.