Found these very tiny bugs crawling around in the hollow of my raspberry. Doesn’t appear to have damaged the fruit at all. I can’t see them anywhere on the outside of the fruit, it is just when I picked a ripe raspberry, they come crawling out. They are orangish, and are darker at the end
Located in Virginia
Thrips?
Could be larvae of SWD (spotted wing drosophila), enemy number one of bramble fruit these days.
Thrips would have tiny antennae, if you can spot that.
That was my initial thought, I just don’t seem to see the damage I would expect from thrips
I haven’t had issues yet with SWD. I assume it’s coming as I’ve only had raspberries for 3 years. So my experience with it is just from pictures, and it seems like the larvae look more like white maggots, and are in the drupelets. And if I understand it, they also affect the firmness of the berry. I’m not seeing any of that with these little guys
