Do bananas have fruit fly eggs in them?!
Do bananas have fruit fly eggs in them?
this is a boy scout experiment. you put a banana in a jar, cover the top of the jar with a cloth, use a rubber band to hold cloth in place, in 2 days there will be flies or gnats in there. where do they come from?
Answers:
Banana fruit fly is mainly found in cultivated and wild bananas. Queensland fruit fly infests both indigenous and introduced fruits. Commercial varieties affected include apples, avocadoes, bananas, capsicum, cherries, citrus, custard apples, grapes, guavas, kiwifruit, mangoes, nectarines, papaya, passionfruit, peaches, pears, persimmons, plums, prunes, quinces and tomatoes.
Avoid physical damage to bunches since damaged fruit will attract ovipositing females. Maintain good-growing conditions and healthy plants to prevent 'mixed ripe' bunches. Harvest fruit at the green mature stage. Cut up bunches left unharvested in the field to speed up breakdown and prevent field breeding. Remove neglected plantings to reduce build up of fruit fly.
Source(s):
http://www2.dpi.qld.gov.au/horticulture/...
i hope not...
not that i know of.
i heared they do they look like maggots and you can only see them with a speacial equipment....but i think it's in another country not reall y sure if it's in california
Of course they do. Where you think the flies and gnats come from.
The flies can get in the jar despite the cloth over the top. I once went on vacation in the summer, left a bottle of strawberry-scented shampoo in the trunk of my car all day. The cap was on tightly. The next morning the shampoo in the bottle contained dozens of drowned fruit flies that had been attracted by the smell of the shampoo and had managed to squeeze right past the cap.
Gross I hope not.
i think the bacteria on fruits evolve to fruit flies after a while, that's why you should wash them good.