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["Dennis Norton" <dmnorton@royaloakfarmorchard.com>]

They never would survive our washing process prior to the cider being made..

Dennis Norton
Royal Oak Farm Orchard
http://www.royaloakfarmorchard.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rodney" <reveland@collinscom.net>
To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 7:51 PM
Subject: [NAFEX] Apple pulp. Home of Apple Maggots???


> >A good way to spread  the apple maggot if there are some in the apples.
> > I wouldn't recommend it for that reason.
>
> I tend to think that the process of sqeezing apples to produce pulp would 
> not be a part of the apple maggots life cycle as they need to be 
> adequately developed larva before "dropping to the ground" and becoming an 
> over wintering pupa and then an adult in the spring. Somehow the idea of 
> being a squashed larva doesn't fit into the picture. Can they survive the 
> cider making process?