The strawberries in your fridge may have some unfriendly pests in them. A TikTok phenomenon has exposed a little-known fly known as the spotted wing drosophila. After it lays eggs inside ...

The little creatures in the fruit are known as the spotted wing drosophilas, which lay eggs inside strawberries. They then hatch and crawl out after being washed in the warm saltwater solution.

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.

No. But there are probably bugs in some strawberries. ... The eggs hatch into itty-bitty larvae—aka maggots—which look exactly like the “worms” in the TikTok video.

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.