# Fruit flies in fruit

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fruit-flies-in-fruit/420609>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 26, 2007, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fruit-flies-in-fruit/420609 "2007-09-26T22:56:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![solkoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@solkoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solkoe)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2007, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fruit-flies-in-fruit/420609/1 "2007-09-26T22:56:32Z")

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Is it true that the eggs of fruit flies travel with the fruit and that we eat them? If left to develop they hatch those annoying flies that we notice when our fruit has been sitting around too long.

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**Author:** ![solkoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@solkoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solkoe)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2007, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fruit-flies-in-fruit/420609/2 "2007-09-28T00:40:33Z")

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This was probably not worded well, so I will give it another chance.  
Where do fruit flies come from? Do they hatch from eggs already in the fruit when we buy it?

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**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2007, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fruit-flies-in-fruit/420609/3 "2007-09-28T00:55:01Z")

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