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A TikTok trend has discovered that some strawberries may have worms living inside them.

A series of videos on the social media platform showed small bugs, which look like worms, crawling out of the fruit when soaked in salt water.

The 5 Live Drive team tested this, and after 30 minutes, a tiny bug emerged from one of the strawberries!

However entomologist Dr Ian Bedford told Anna Foster that eating these bugs "will not do you any harm鈥�.

Dr Bedford explained that this particular bug was a maggot of the spotted wing drosophila - a fruit fly which came into Britain in 2012 from Southeast Asia.

He added that this species is known for laying its eggs onto developing fruit, such as a crop of strawberries and because they do not hatch until the strawberries mature, you cannot tell the bugs are there.

This clip was originally broadcast on 5 Live Drive on Thursday 25 June 2020.