It can be shocking: you soak fresh strawberries in a bowl of salt water, and suddenly tiny white, thread-like worms begin wriggling out of the fruit. Before you panic and toss the entire batch, it helps to understand what’s actually happening.
Those small white larvae are typically the immature stage of the Spotted Wing Drosophila, a small fruit fly that lays its eggs inside soft-skinned fruits like strawberries, raspberries, and blackberries.
