What does a fruit fly maggot sound like as it feeds on grapefruit pulp?
Everett Foreman considers the question. “It sounds like Rice Krispies popping in milk you hear little pops and clicks, which are the sounds of the larvae tearing at the pulp and chewing it,” he says. Agricultural Research Service in the summer of 1984, before his senior year in high school. At an agency lab in Gainesville, Florida, he assisted engineer J.C. Webb on a project to detect larvae inside citrus without having to cut open the fruit. To accomplish this, Webb, now retired, devised a stethoscope-like microphone system that he attached to an intact citrus fruit so he could hear the sounds of larvae chewing. In 1985, after graduating from Gainesville High School as covaledictorian of his class, Foreman entered Northwestern University, where he studied electrical engineering. While at college, he returned to Gainesville each summer to work at the agency’s Insect Attractants Laboratory, which specializes in finding environmentally friendly ways to control insects. He joined the lab
