posums
Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables was created on -19-06-05.
Fruit that is old or has gone bad .
Part of the rotting process is dehydration, losing moisture. As the fruit rot's, moisture is also lost which is weight.
no. Rotting fruit is just changing the form of the fruit not making an entirely new substance. So, it is a physical change. Sorry ... rotting is a chemical change - the bacteria and molds are "eating" the fruit and changeing it into the eqivalent of poo. Drying fruit would be mostly a physical change.
Fruit flies will lay eggs in rotting wood. Fruit flies will generally lay their eggs nearly anywhere that they can.
Any where there is a rotting banana
Chemical change
a fly is a decomposer that eats old and rotting things
freeze it
Petroleum Jelly on the cut edges of a pumpkin will slow the oxidation and rotting of the fruit.
Fruit flys
The larval stage of the insect (the caterpillar) has a mouth and eats (vegetation.) Once it goes through metamorphisis, the mouth becomes a proboscis and the adult only drinks (water and nectar or the juice of rotting fruit mostly.) Some tropical butterflies visit carrion and dung to feed.