Talk:Cheese fly

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Pierre, starting from a point of complete ignorance about biology, I was recently locally told that the only way to artificially make casu modde cheese is to introduce in it a spot of olive oil (making a small hole and immediately closing it again, letting the cheese "mature" for a few months), so I believe the Piohila is already in either the cheese or the oil (the latter less likely - maybe only to help larva's growth). Also, I am not so sure that sheperds could manage its larva. But, obviously, this is only a doubt I have. :-) --Gianfranco

Well, I never even heard of casu modde until I saw the article, and a search for "casu modde Piophila" made Google tell me I misspelled "modde". I have heard of Piophila, in connection with forensic entomology - it's one of the later insects to infest corpses. I suppose that if a cheesemaker kept Piophilae in a room (perhaps by letting a cheese sit long enough) and brought kebbucks into the room, that would count as intentionally introducing them. -phma