This task has taken more time to complete than any I have done to date. You'll see why.

We started with a fresh banana, still slightly green and free from blemishes. If you're like me, the sight of a fresh, almost ripe banana is quite tempting. So I grabbed a silver pen and wrote the word "Delicious" on this banana. Then I stabbed it through the center with a wire hanger, ran a length of fishing line through the hole, tied off one end of the line to a small piece of cardboard (to hold it up), and hung this banana from a pipe in the carport underneath the apartment complex in which we live.

Then time did it's work. Specifically, the starches in the banana were turned into sugars via respiration and rot set in. It took more time than I expected, but that makes for a more detailed documentation.

Time wasn't the only thing to take its toll on my banana. It wasn't long before the fruit flies found this little treasure and boy oh boy! They went to town!

See the pics below for the whole story. Well, mostly. The night after these last pair of photos were taken, the "banana" succumbed to gravity and became a putrid splat on the ground. It was delicious while it lasted!