Just bit into an apple and found worm

[Makkari1]

Originally Posted by Tetragrammaton

Have you ever taken a bite of a nice, shiny, juicy red apple, only to discover that you were not alone in enjoying your snack? Hopefully, what you saw was a whole worm, because you know what it would mean if you found only half!

The worm nesting inside that apple did not have to crawl inside it to make the apple its home, for the worm was born there. Apples are not only worms' homes, but their supermarkets as well. Here's how it all happens.

During the summer, small fruit flies can be found buzzing around apple orchards. These are called apple maggot flies. Each female finds herself a sweet smelling apple that is ripening and lands on it. Using a small, sharp, hollow tube on the underside of her body, the fly stabs a small hole in the fruit. Then she releases her eggs, which slide down that hollow tube into the apple.

Soon afterwards, the eggs hatch into tiny white worms, in no way resembling their mother. These worms are called railroad worms.

All during the summer and into the fall, the always hungry worms nourish themselves by munching tunnels in the apple. When the apples are ripe in the fall and drop from the tree, the worms crawl out and burrow into the ground. There, a hard outer skin develops on each worm's body. This hard skin becomes a winter home for the worm in the ground. It is inside this winter home that the worm becomes an apple maggot fly.

The following summer, the fly breaks open the skin, emerges, and begins to fly about the orchard. Then the entire process begins all over again.

Thank you professor.

[Darth Pain]

Mmmmm..some protein along with the vitamins.

[Makkari1]

Originally Posted by Endless Wake

No holes on the outside, everything was fresh except this rotted tunnel. I took a knife and dug until I found a tiny worm!

Your stomach can handle a few worms. You've probably eaten quite a few and didn't know it. They all come out in the end any way.

[cblakey1]

Originally Posted by Darth Pain

Mmmmm..some protein along with the vitamins.

Exactly.

[Endless Wake]

Originally Posted by Tetragrammaton

This tread is useless without pics.

I was at work so I only had my cell to snap a pic. The worm is somewhere at the bottom of the garbage can.

[Tetragrammaton]

Thanks.

[Teague]

This is exactly why I only eat apple slices.

[Zombie]

Originally Posted by Tetragrammaton

Have you ever taken a bite of a nice, shiny, juicy red apple, only to discover that you were not alone in enjoying your snack? Hopefully, what you saw was a whole worm, because you know what it would mean if you found only half!

it makes you almost throw up.

[ratchet]

Never had this happen thank goodness...