Ι conclude something is attacking my fruits and that is the reaction of the fruits. That means if they are bigger, or full mature nothing or almost nothing is to see and I can consume them normal. Right?
If they ripe and you dont find any fat white maggot you will be ok, but if you do dont panic. Shake the maggot out, you will notice the papaya fruit flies grub ls are quite nice and fat. Throw them in water & let them swell five minutes, they should purge. Hot skillet with olive oil, throw the maggot in light flour coating & light fried until light brown; dam crispy like meaty nutty popcorn. You can serve it on a slaw of green papaya. One year I grew some carribean red and fifty five lbs big green fruits were full of them; like a good Apalachian Redneck that I am, I did not let a pest situation going to waste to fill my belly.
After that minuscule meal it left my hunger wanting better, I chop down 14 papyas trees of the red carribean and planted the Borneo giant red which was excellent, I kind off miss those crunchy gourmet critters thought!
