Brown rot is a fungal disease which can affect many types of fruit. It gets its name from the resulting brown patches that may engulf the fruit. The disease starts by attacking fruit that has already ...

If you've ever bought bananas, avocados, apples, or greens only to find them rotting the next ... leafy greens turn yellow or brown. The more ripe an ethylene-producing fruit or vegetable is ...

So, think of rotting fruit like the hunt for the best ... while fruit flies range from light tan to reddish orange and brown. Fruit flies have a taste for too-ripe fruit and other produce and ...

Once the flies get in your house, she said, they'll lay eggs everywhere they can -- in rotten fruit or any fermented ... and are light brown with dark rings around their abdomen.