There are really bugs in the bayberries.

The bugs in bayberry are also called bayberry bugs. The white translucent bugs that people see in a magnifying glass are actually the larvae of fruit flies. If you magnify the bayberry bug 1000 times, you will think you have seen it. Alien creatures. Mature fruit flies lay eggs on bayberries, and after the eggs hatch, the larvae burrow into the flesh of the bayberry. Although the bayberry bug looks scary, it is actually not harmful to the human body, and people don't have to worry about it growing up in the stomach.

Fruit flies usually feed on honey, fruits, etc., and they are relatively clean. However, during the fruit fly breeding season, fruit flies are often attracted by the aroma of bayberries, so they lay eggs on bayberries. Although fruit fly larvae are harmless to humans, they will be eaten into the stomach when eating bayberry, which makes people feel very uncomfortable.

Morphological characteristics of bayberry

Evergreen trees, up to more than 15 meters in height and more than 60 centimeters in diameter at breast height; the bark is gray, with longitudinal lobes when old; the crown is spherical. The branchlets and buds are hairless, and the lenticels are usually few and inconspicuous. When young, they are only covered with round and shield-like glands.

The leaves are leathery and hairless, and fall off after 2 years of survival. They are often densely concentrated on the upper ends of small branches; those mostly born on the germinal stems are oblong or wedge-shaped lanceolate, more than 16 cm long, with a tapered top. Pointed or sharp, with sparse sharp serrations above the middle of the edge, often full edge below the middle, with a wedge-shaped base.

Those born on fertile branches are wedge-shaped or oblong-ovate, 5-14 cm long and 1-4 cm wide. The top is rounded or blunt or has a short apex to an acute apex, the base is wedge-shaped, and the entire edge is Or occasionally there are a few sharp serrations above the middle part. The upper part is dark green and shiny, and the lower part is light green and hairless. It is only covered with sparse golden glands. After drying, the midrib and lateral veins are obvious on both upper and lower sides, and more on the lower part. It is raised; the petiole is 2-10 mm long.