• Question: Why do maggots like apples?

    Asked by clobo1 to Asif, Laura, Lena, Sean, Viv on 16 Mar 2012.
    • Photo: Lena Ciric

      Lena Ciric answered on 15 Mar 2012:

      Pretty much for the same reason we like them – they’re tasty!

      There is a particular maggot that likes apples and some other fruits called the apple maggot (imaginatively!). It’s the larva of a kind of small fly. The fly lays it’s eggs in the apple. Yuk. As the larvae develop they eat the apple flesh to grow into a fly.

    • Photo: Sean Murphy

      Sean Murphy answered on 15 Mar 2012:

      The reason these insects attack the apples is that they like to eat them too! The fruit gives these insects a place to lay their eggs and something to eat as they grow into their adult form

    • Photo: Laura Waters

      Laura Waters answered on 16 Mar 2012:

      I had a bat die in the roof of my house and maggots started dropping through a small hole on the ceiling by the light. They were EVERYWHERE! I don’t like them in my house!

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