is a frequent visitor to ripe fruit in households around the world, where it often deposits eggs on rotting flesh without being noticed. We have probably all consumed different body parts of fruit ...

These antennae are specially attuned to sniff out chemicals like acetic acid let off by rotting fruit, and once they're locked on to the scent, it's nearly impossible to keep them out of your home.

But it turned out the "gas" that students smelt at the RMIT's library was a rotting durian that had been left in a cupboard. The durian is a tropical fruit known for its strong, stinky smell.

Due to this, cracks started appearing on the grapes causing the fruit to rot. The growers removed the rotten grapes and discarded them in an attempt to protect the ones that managed to resist the ...