One of the bugs as seen under a microscope. AKBrews/Twitter. As it turns out, the strawberry colonizer is actually a spotted wing drosophila, a “very tiny” invasive fruit fly that likes to lay ...

Under the microscope, bugs and insects get bigger, brighter and in some cases, even a little more scary. Click with caution. Some folks try their hardest to avoid creepy critters.

On Jan. 28, 2024, a TikTok creator known as Micro Zoom Guy uploaded a video in which he placed a packet of instant ramen under a microscope and zoomed in on what appeared to be tiny bugs crawling ...

Here are some insects on another strawberry, recorded by a YouTube channel dedicated to magnifying such objects. The videos above appear to show species of small mites that live on strawberries ...

In January and February 2025, internet users shared a video that purportedly showed an individual placing a Pringles-brand potato chip under a microscope to reveal hundreds of tiny mites crawling ...

By the time Matvey Nikelshparg was 13, he was obsessed with parasitoid wasps, tiny insects that lay their eggs on or inside other bugs. Under a microscope in a lab he had assembled at home, he ...