Why are maggots in acorns?

Question

Why is it that whenever i open an acorn, there's a maggot inside?

How do they get in there and why do they go in there?

Answer 1

The maggots think they taste good!

Answer 2

because ur mom them in therre

Answer 3

Beecawz that's hauw gawd maid thim.

Answer 4

God put them there

Answer 5

they eat the acorn.  They also may not be maggots.  They may have started out smaller, or got laid in there.  Then they grow as they eat!

Answer 6

throw em in your sheets

Answer 7

It's their natural food.  The adult insect lays the egg under the edge of the cap and the larvae eats it's way to adulthood in there, then bores a hole out.

You can tell the infested acorns from the non-wormy ones by throwing them in a bucket of water.  The good acorns are heavier and sink, but the ones with worms in, which have eaten the inside hollow, will float.