Yes, There Are Bugs in Your Strawberries. Produce comes from the ground so some amount of debris, dirt, and yes, bugs, is normal. The good news is that none of these critters should be harmful to ...

As if these treats weren’t “seedy” enough. Strawberries might seem like clean eating, but the average ripened specimen could harbor a bug bonanza. Fruit enthusiasts are creeping out over an ...

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.

Here's how I grow strawberries so they don't get eaten by bugs, pecked by birds, stolen by rats, or lost to mold. Skip to Main Content. View our Bluesky Page (Opens in a new tab) ...

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 ...

Among the bugs are aptly named strawberry mites - pests only ever found on strawberries. At just 0.25mm, these bugs often look like water droplets under the microscope as they curl up in the ...

A number of other species of bugs considered pests live on various parts of strawberry plants. Some larger insects, invasive to the US, even lay their eggs inside strawberries, blueberries, and ...

Soaking strawberries in a saltwater solution will indeed cause any hidden pests to emerge. According to Cornell University, placing berries in a solution of 1 tablespoon of salt in 1 cup of water for ...