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| Digging down into the drier parts of the biodegredation site in DHJanzen100051.jpg above, one finds one of the two primary agents. These are larvae of a large wild fly in the Stratiomyidae, a species of fly whose larvae are normally (and commonly) found feeding in rotting wild fruit fallen under the parent tree in the forest. These larvae, along with the larvae of several species of Syrphidae, were by the millions plowing and churning through the orange peel/pulp - basically oxygenating it, and thereby helping the bacteria and fungi who were doing the primary degradation process. The Syrphidae were also of wild species whose larvae are normally found in rotting fruit and waterlogged vegetation. In short, indeed the ACG biodiversity was collectively eating the orange peels/pulp. | ||
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