# Are fruitfly eggs on most fruit?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 6, 2007, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-fruitfly-eggs-on-most-fruit/414622 "2007-08-06T14:36:37Z")\
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I notice that a couple of days after placing a banana peel in the garbage that fruit-flies will appear. Are the eggs already on the bananas just waiting for the fruit to become overripe and hatch?  
Is this generally a health hazard, that the eggs are all over the outside of the fruit?