There was a whole twinkie in our company parking lot out in the sun. (In Phoenix it doesn’t rain for months at a time.) It was there for 6 months until it turned dark brown. I noted that for some reason it did not even attract bugs.
The seagulls that spend their lives around MA mall parking lots would have eaten it in a New York minute.
It is serendipitous observations such as that which have led to advances such as the invention of Ivory soap and Penicillin.
Perhaps you have just made the next great discovery in the field of Entomology...
From the “no joke” department…
Back in `06 I was D.O. for the Texas Minutemen. We had a secondary facility at the east end of the El Paso project as the project watch area was a bit over 50 miles long.
Anyway, the secondary facility was 3 miles west of Ft Hancock which is pretty much at the corner of no and where. There was nothing there (besides the buildings) to sustain life, just dirt, sand, rocks interspersed with the occasional area of sandy dirt.
Some of the watch volunteers would bring sacks of junk food and of course it never quite all made it to the trash barrel. At night a few rats would cruse down the side of the barn like building (inside) and check out the wrappers.
Never saw one eat a single McDonald’s French fry. They would sniff a half a scoop of the things… and keep right on walking.
Or birds?......