Extremely surprising image when looking through a microscope at a strawberry

Recently, a Twitter user posted a video recording the scene of using a microscope to observe the surface of a strawberry freshly picked from the tree.

Image of strawberry under microscope.

The video quickly attracted more than 7.4 million views thanks to pointing out the "unexpected" thing living beneath the seemingly extremely attractive surface of this fruit.

It is known that this is a microscopic mite that usually lives on strawberries and stems. They lay eggs along the leaf veins, and like to suck nutrients from the leaves, as well as the closed seeds on the surface of strawberries.

The video makes people who have the habit of eating strawberries directly without washing them need to think again. Although there is no evidence that this bug is harmful to health, observing them crawling and living on strawberries can make many people "goosebumps".

Strawberry is a genus of flowering plants in the family Roseaceae. It originated in the Americas and was crossbred by European gardeners in the 18th century to create the widely grown strawberry variety today.

Strawberries are not actually berries as many people think. The fruit develops from the flower base.

Strawberries are highly appreciated by many people for their characteristic aroma, bright red color, and juiciness.

Each "seed" on the outer surface of the strawberry is actually one of the ovaries of the flower, with a seed inside. Therefore, this place also often attracts insects and small bugs to come and do the pollination task.

Strawberries are highly appreciated by many people for their characteristic aroma, bright red color, juiciness and sweetness. In addition to being eaten directly as a nutritious fruit, they are also processed into jam, juice, cakes, ice cream.

In 2017, the world's strawberry production was 9.22 million tons, led by China, which accounted for 40% of the total output. In Vietnam, the cool climate of the Da Lat mountains is a suitable environment for strawberry cultivation, so this fruit is considered a specialty of the highlands here.