My wife wouldn’t eat this apple after she cut a Codling Moth worm in half. I ate it and it was good. Edit: ate the apple!
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I’m with the wife
Would be food for nature wildlife or compost 
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I ate it and it was good
That’s good to hear! Was the apple good too?
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Im eating these now. Im freaked out at how amazing they taste… some of the best apples i have consumed in a long time.
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OK but how was the apple? 
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I found out I’m extremely allergic to those worms after eating over 100 of them one day 
i had no idea until i got a phone call and was like “CHECK YOUR FRUITS! He didn’t spray them this year…” low and behold, i did. Every Cherry had a giant, fat worm in it along with my apples…
I had eaten over 2 bowls of cherries that day and wondered why my eyes and nose couldn’t stop running, why my throat was itchy, and why it was hard to breath that day 
Took me years to eat cherries and apples again and I’m now allergic to them. Go figure…
May the odds be ever in your favor 
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I don’t eat the worm, just remove it. But that’s supposed to be a positive now, since you have a better chance of it being grown organically with no pesticides. When I see corn ears with worms at the top, its a good sign for me, but i grew up in Mexico in a farm so I’m used to it. Your wife probably grew in the city and that is why she reacted that way.
Made me think of jokes about vegan cherries…
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That funky feeling was your microbiome getting adjusted lol
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I’m pretty sure it’s a different type of larva in cherries. I mean I could be wrong, but I’ve mostly seen SWD larvae in cherries here, never codling moth or apple maggots (the two main kinds in apples here).
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Around here very likely to be plum curculio larva. If I don’t get surround on all my carmine jewel cherries, they’ll almost all have a curc worm inside.
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They were HUGE 
I don’t think they’re the tiny fruit fly maggots cause they were as big as the ones they sell for fishing 
Im surprised no one has brought up the old joke: “whats worse than biting into an apple and finding a worm?” answer- finding 1/2 a worm…
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I don’t spray my apples, so there is a lot of trimming out worms. I use a pocket knife, not a paring knife sine I eat the skins too. The apples are delectable. The trimmings all go into a compost pile. I am not sure if my composting method kills the worms. But I suppose I have enough to share. It is a treat to watch the deer eat the falls.
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I think I spent my whole childhood cutting worms out of apples before they got cooked into sauce, pies ect. My grandparents, neighbors and my parents never sprayed their apples. We didn’t mind.
Tried it once with my family with some “free” apples we picked off an ancient tree that nobody sprayed. My wife and children were mortified that I kept the apple flesh after cutting out the section the worm was in.
They informed me that the coddling moth larvae also released its waste products into the apple so no way would they consider eating that pie!
No loss. I had the whole pie to myself. Mighty tasty.
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Ive gotta admit, when inspecting my hazelnut trees I happened to stumble upon an big horned worm that gave me the danger flight response. Don’t think it was the tomato worm, by was as large or larger. Should have had phone with for pic!
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