Fruit Beetle Clumsy but Harmless. By ROBERT SMAUS . Oct. 26, 2000 12 AM PT . Share via Close extra sharing options. ... While the beetles are pretty enough to be jewelry, the larvae are fat, ...

By the time sap beetles show up, the fruit in question might be too far gone to be usable. Many times however you can simply cut out the bad part of the fruit and salvage at least part of it.

Inside the pupae, the beetle larvae "get rid of a lot of what they have inside [their bodies] and rebuild," Flórez said. At the end of the pupal stage, adult beetles emerge fully formed. Sign up ...

When the adult beetles are fully shaped, the back of the pupa splits open, right along the line that carries the bacteria. “The beetles are then crawling out, and the symbionts are then ...