What I mean is people grow fruit outside surely this is a perfect opportunity for insects to have a feast , yet the fruit manages to grow fully and be picked without hardly being touched .
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Lots of times it is destroyed by insects. Pesticides generally keep fruit safe until they’re ready to harvest.
Just a quick note that the fruits are destroyed for humans, from the fruits’ and insects’ perspective it helps them thrive.
I answered much of this to on_the_other_hand but I want to give a more complete answer.
Fruit and large animals have evolved together. Why do we see the colors that we see? Who do most not ripe fruit start out green, and then get a ripe color?
Trees have create fruit to be consumed by mammals and birds. They start out green to blend with the leaves and then turn bright colors to make it easy for us to spot. We have in turn evolved to see colors, and be able to pick out fruit.
Insects are good for some plant preproduction. They can take some seeds a very short distance, and they are great for fertilizing flowers. Insects are not good for long distance travel.
Trees do not want their offspring at their feet. They would be competing with each other. Instead they want birds or mammals to pick the seeds up and move them. Trees bribe us with sweet fruit hoping that we swallow their seeds. We then move the seed somewhere else and excreta them with fertilizer.
This does not always work perfectly, and some plants are picky. Let’s say peppers want to be spicy. Mammals feel spice but birds can’t. So preppers try to heat to prefer birds over mammals.
Insects though are a pest to fruit bearing trees and plants. Aside from artificial pesticides plants produce tons of natural pesticides to keep insects at bay. They have skin around their fruit to make it harder for insects to access them.
So in conclusion, fruits don’t get destroyed because plants have evolved their darn best to not let them do it
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insects still eat a lot of crops sometimes, but the answer kind of depends on who you mean by “people”. farmers use pesticides and gmo plants that resist bugs and diseases. hobby gardeners pay close attention to their crops and are quick to notice and deal with any infestations. often they are growing plants not native to their area, so there aren’t any bugs around that know a meal is on offer. on top of all that, if there get to be too many bugs around, the birds notice and have a feast themselves.
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