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Female fruit flies can lay more than 400 eggs at a time in fruit, which only need one to two days to hatch before larvae eat their way through, shedding their skin along the way.

Lantern Fly Eggs 8.jpg Naturalist Lisa Sanchez speaks with Lancastrians before leading them on a hike to look for and scrape the spotted lantern fly egg masses at Speedwell Forge County Park on Sunday, January 24, 2021. Lisa shows the stick and paint scraper that she likes to use to enable her to reach some of the higher masses on trees. Suzette Wenger Lantern Fly Eggs 9.jpg Naturalist Lisa Sanchez, left, shows George Kernisky of Rapho Township, an egg mass as sh...

Lantern Fly Eggs 8.jpg Naturalist Lisa Sanchez speaks with Lancastrians before leading them on a hike to look for and scrape the spotted lantern fly egg masses at Speedwell Forge County Park on Sunday, January 24, 2021. Lisa shows the stick and paint scraper that she likes to use to enable her to reach some of the higher masses on trees. Suzette Wenger Lantern Fly Eggs 9.jpg Naturalist Lisa Sanchez, left, shows George Kernisky of Rapho Township, an egg mass as sh...

Coming from. >> reporter: and youre not allowed to run from them in this setting. >> youre told to sit in your seat and stay calm. >> reporter: as ground crew cleaned and fumigated, passengers wandered the gate. and wondered the obvious. how do maggots get on a plane? are some airlines now so dirty that fly eggs are hatching in the overhead bins? >> well, yeah. i felt something on my knee. and i looked down, it was maggots. maggots. >> was it disgusting? >> very disgusting. >> tell me what went ...

>> reporter: and youre not allowed to run from them in this setting. >> youre told to sit in your seat and stay calm. >> reporter: as ground crew cleaned and fumigated, passengers wandered the gate and wondered the obvious. how do maggots get on a plane? are some airlines now so dirty that fly eggs are hatching in the overhead bins? >> well, yeah. i felt something on my knee. and i looked down, it was maggots. maggots. >> was it disgusting? >> very disgusting. >> tell me what went through your m...