It should be noted here that rotting need not always have the wholly negative connotations that it does for us.
Some of the conclusions run counter to common plantation practice such as leaving damaged and rotting pods amongst the cocoa trees.
However, maize harvested early must either be eaten relatively soon or boiled and dried to prevent rotting.
But the sea breezes often failed to move the banks of hammers; worse, prolonged calm turned vatfuls of rotting rags into waste.
The plantlets were placed in the water and left for one week with the water changed daily to prevent rotting.
Subsequent rotting of the shrubs left empty moulds.
Sampling is typically conducted by placing rotting banana baits at or near the ground and returning periodically to collect flies.
We limit our study to drosophilid species that are attracted to rotting banana.
