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

Apple maggot flies can migrate into previously uninfested trees from unsprayed or abandoned apple trees somewhere in the vicinity. They are known to migrate for at least half a mile. We have no orchards within a 5 mile radius of our location, nor do we have any neighbors with apple trees within a 2 mile radius.  It's quite possible your friend picked those apple maggots up from a nearby trees. 

Dennis Norton
Royal Oak Farm Orchard
http://www.royaloakfarmorchard.com

----- Original Message -----

From: Bob Hartman

To: North American Fruit Explorers

Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 8:24 PM

Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Apple pulp. Home of Apple Maggots???

I talked to one person several years ago that had a number of trees in her orchard.  She said she had no apple maggot in her apples.  She helped out at an apple squeeze one year and decided to take the pulp home to put in her compost pile.  Guess what?  Next year her apples had a lot of apple maggot in them.

Rodney wrote:

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? 

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