I always throw my fruit under the scope to make sure it's covered with bugs before I eat them😊

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Strawberry Fields Forever

Thrips is the usual term, singular or plural (family Thysanoptera), which you clearly know. A lab at PFW discovered Soybean Vein Necrosis used thrips as vectors. There are dozens of species of thrips; onion thrips, watermelon thrips, soybean thrips, tobacco thrips; a fascinating species.

Thank you, Oliver, for that input and putting me off of foraging berries off of the bush and eating them as I pick when I come across them. Maybe I think too much. I like foraging brambles (Scottish) and I eat them as I hike straight from the bush. I'll try to forget your scientific conclusions.

Thanks for sharing your experiences, Oliver.

"of course I put the strawberries under the microscope" lol

Who would have thought strawberrys provide protein ;)

Erdbeerenland?

Great video.. I just did a video of thrips in my roses.. I did look at strawberries from the market under a microscope a month ago, couldn’t find any thrips or insects on them.. great video..

Probably named after Henry James Franklin, an American cranberry grower and entomologist.

Pro tip: send this video to your local farmer. Let him know you won't reveal his name if he offer you a great discount on fruit (aka 100% discount). 🌹

This telling me than I really have to try everything under the microscope! There’s always something to discover! 😊 By the way, did you show the video to the farmer?

Insects are delicious. Also insects are descendants of Crustaceans (e.g. crabs, shrimps, etc..), technically they are Crustaceans (e.g. crabs, shrimps, etc..), just like birds are dinasours. That is not much difference between eating insects and eating shrimps.

i wonder how many of these I have eaten over the years 🤮

I'm never foraging again 🤢

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