An Australian woman has told how she was horrified to discover live maggots in a snack she was eating while on a Qantas flight from Los Angeles to Melbourne.
Victoria Cleven began tucking into her snack of nuts and dried fruit as she made her way home on Thursday. At the time, she did not turn on her overhead light as the cabin was darkened.
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"It tasted strange, and I turned the light on and looked at the rest of the packet, and just started seeing maggots coming out of it everywhere," Cleven, 42, said. "I couldn't talk. I was nearly throwing up. I was beside myself." Her 15-year-old son then checked two other packets of the snack and found they also were seething with maggots.
Qantas said it had apologised to the woman and would investigate how the situation arose. "We've apologised to her for her experience," a Qantas spokesman said. "We're speaking to the supplier of the trail mix to try to establish how it could have happened. We're taking it very seriously," the spokesman added.
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I would bet good money that they weren't maggots. They were caterpillars. This is almost certainly a case of the Indian Meal Moth or some other member of the genus Plodia.
These things are everywhere. They are a big problem in the bird seed industry and are common in pet supply stores and grocery stores.
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