maggots

[mydogsandme]

My daughter asked me this and I didn't know. She'd found a maggot in a gone-off peach and thought that they crawled into the fruit when it was rotten and then thought maybe they grow in the fruit when it's rotten. Do they and how? She says does that mean all fruit has something in it that can grow a maggot? Are we completely stupid? Help!

[kaktus]

A blowfly comes along and lay eggs in the pear or what ever they find, the eggs then become maggots crawl off and becomes flies.

I haven't read it but here's a wikipedia link on flies and maggots

[kaktus]

Don't know what happened, I posted before I was finished there.

I just wanted to say, that she can rest assured she's not eating a potential maggot when she eats fruit, it's those evil flies who do it.

[mydogsandme]

thanks kaktus- we can rest easy then!

[sddsddean]

Q Whats worse than finding a worm in your apple?

A Finding half a worm in your apple!!

(I know its old!)

[Octavius]

What is the maggot army called?
The Apple Corps!

Why didn't the two worms get on Noah's Ark in an apple?
Because everyone had to go on in pairs!