If you count yourself among the crowd that’s repulsed by the thought of unknowingly consuming spiders and other small insects, boy do we have some distressing news for you
Strawberries. Photo: Nico De Pasquale Photography/Getty Images If you count yourself among the crowd that’s repulsed by the thought of unknowingly consuming spiders and other small insects, boy do I have some distressing news for you: Strawberries, among the most beloved of fruits, are crawling with very tiny bugs.
This disturbing revelation has surfaced in the most unlikely of places, TikTok, where users have temporarily shunned viral dance challenges for an unnerving science experiment. The trend, which bears the foreboding tag #strawberrieswithbugs, goes as so: You submerge store-brought strawberries in a bath of salty water, and then inspect the berries for little critters. In some of the videos, no vermin appear.
The bad news is that the bugs are actual maggots from a fly called the Spotted Wing Drosophila, which inject fruit — typically, berries — with their eggs. Sometimes, these eggs don’t hatch before you eat the infested berry; other times, as evidenced by the TikTok videos, the maggots break free from their eggs before you pop the berry in your mouth. But the good news is, they’re not dangerous for consumption.
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