There are no flies in my house, but if I leave a piece of fruit out too long, they show up. Even if it’s far away from any doors or windows, they’ll be there. So, where do they come from?
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I don’t want to gross you out, but they were probably there before you bought the fruit. The picked and ripening fruit could be exposed to fruit flies at any point between the orchard and your house. A momma fly looks for any sort of dead plant matter to lay its eggs in, including the apples or bananas that were recently picked. They’ll deposit the eggs on the now technically dead fruit, probably in the storage bins at the orchard. Those eggs will roll through the fly’s life cycle, slowed down by the cold storage the store or shipping company puts them in, and then hatch inside your house. Boom, you now have flies.
The best way to prevent this would be to wash your fruit as soon as you get it home. Alternately, you can live with the fact that you’ve been eating fruit fly eggs your whole life.
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