The last thing you ever want to see before you eat fruit is a bug crawling out of it, but that can happen with strawberries. But here's why you shouldn't panic.

As it turns out, the strawberry colonizer is actually a spotted wing drosophila, a “very tiny” invasive fruit fly that likes to lay its eggs under the skin of strawberries and other berries.

Dr. Sriyanka Lahiri, a strawberry and small fruit crop entomologist at the University of Florida’s Gulf Coast Research and Education Center, joins Wendy Snyder (filling-in for Lisa Dent) to explain ...

Strawberry shortages are expected this year due to a fungal disease called neopestalotiopsis, or Neo-P. The fungus has been identified in Ohio since 2021 and has spread to other states, impacting ...