Where do worms come from in cherries: all summer residents should know
Each of us has probably encountered the unpleasant experience of biting into a ripe and juicy cherry and discovering a worm sticking out of it.
An expert of the online publication BelNovosti, agronomist, and landscape designer Anastasia Kovrizhnykh said that this is nothing other than the offspring of the black-bellied fly.
Another name for the parasite is fruit drosophila.
The pest looks like a beige fly, whose body is decorated with spots.
The insect wakes up in the spring as soon as the thermometer rises above +10 degrees.
The fruit fly emerges from the ground, mates, grows fat, and then lays its eggs, as you already understood, in the cherry tree.
From the eggs of the black-bellied fly, white, fat worms hatch, which we later find in the pulp next to the bone.
If you are squeamish about eating berries that may contain worms, try soaking the cherries for a few hours before serving.
