I have a question about starting apriocts from seeds im doing the cold start method to germanate my seeds but the seeds still seem to hard any advice for gettingbthem to germanate and sprout? they havent finshed the cold part yet not untilmthe end of may

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Also try vinegar traps, they will attract both moths and flies.

Note that fly larva are maggots, fruit flies are the usual suspects here.

Moth larva are caterpillars, often called worms when in fruit.

There are subtle differences in the appearance of maggots and "worms".

The Plum Curculio pest would be my guess if you're located in the US and east of the Mississippi river. This insect will carve a little crescent moon shaped slit into the skin of the fruit (esp on stone fruits) and lay an egg that hatches into the maggot. The maggot then proceeds to drill down into the core to start the rotting process.

The Plum Curculio mentioned above is a beetle (weevil); beetle larvae are referred to as larva or grubs, not maggots.

"Maggot" here is being used as slang for larvae/grub. If you bite into a fruit and find one present it will surely come across as a nasty "maggot", no adult egg laying fly required.

If very tiny larvae/maggots, likely fruit flies. If a single larger creature, then plum curculio is a more likely suspect.

Some fruit flies are as large or larger than a housefly, and have larger larva.

The problem with calling all fruit pest larva "maggots" is that it can cause a mis-identification of the pest insect, and different pests may require different control methods, and time and money could be spent treating the wrong pest.

Updated the post, though if I knew what the pest was, I wouldn't have needed to ask the question

Well, duh.

Given the limited information, helpful people only offered an educated guess.

Compare images of the two moth larvae and curculio larvae and see if "a tan head" eliminates any of them from consideration.

The vinegar trap will not attract the curculio.