So if someone finds a larvae in their fruit, because it's a little squishy or even if it's not, is it still safe to eat? And what should they do with it?

So this is a really good question, and it's going to be based on your personal preferences, personal tolerances.

If you can't stand the idea of eating an infested fruit or even with just a tiny little egg in it, you can throw them out, and then that's your way of keeping a clean environment to reduce the probability of future fruit getting that infestation because you're removing the next generation from the environment.

If you do notice it a tiny bit and you're not noticing the sunken fruit yet, if you just are noticing a couple flies and you're worried about getting to that phase where everything's falling apart in your hands, you can just pick the ripening or totally ripe fruit and just freeze it because you may get a couple eggs in there, but it's totally indistinguishable.

You won't be able to, especially if you've put it through the freeze-thaw cycle, not only will it kill the egg or kill the larva, If you have plans of processing your fruit in the first place, then SWD isn't going to be as big of a deal for you.

Let's say you're growing raspberries in the backyard because you love raspberry jam or you want to make some strawberry syrup or something like that.

You can still take fruit that has some eggs in it or maybe a first-in-star developing larva that is now falling apart in your hand.

with that practice,