How to Use apple maggot in a Sentence

apple maggot

noun

• But fruit trees also require annual pruning and are susceptible to pests, such as apple maggots and codling moths.
  — Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 4 July 2026
• Life cycle Female apple maggot flies lay 300 to 500 eggs over their 30-day life span.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 Sep. 2026
• Predictive models of apple maggot emergence are available in many places to help farmers efficiently target the pests.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 Sep. 2026
• Infested fruits often drop from the tree prematurely, and apple maggot larvae eventually tunnel out to pupate and overwinter in the soil.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 Sep. 2026
• In addition, orchard sanitation can interrupt the apple maggot’s life cycle.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 Sep. 2026
• In commercial orchards apple maggots are commonly controlled with insecticides targeting adult flies.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 Sep. 2026
• Because of these characteristic trails, apple maggots are also known as railroad worms (the name is more commonly applied to the larvae and wormlike adult females of Phrixothrix beetles).
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 Sep. 2026
• Following the apple’s arrival with European colonizers, however, some apple maggot populations shifted to the new host plant.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 Sep. 2026
• These differences have made the apple maggot an important model for studies of host specificity and the possibility of speciation (the evolution of new species) without geographic isolation.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 Sep. 2026
• Distribution and host plants The apple maggot is native to North America and is most widespread in the eastern United States and southeastern Canada; its range extends westward across parts of the northern United States and southern Canada.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 Sep. 2026