Berry important news from Mel K

So there I was the other day, seated comfortably and taking in the sun in my miniature backyard, or back garden for the Brits. I look over towards the compost bin and see this enormous plant with pointy leaves and thorns and little berries growing behind it! The berries look like blackberries, my favourite berry. I pick a bunch and eat them without washing them first. Yum! I pick another handful. Before stuffing this bunch into my mouth, however, I notice something moving on the surface of one of the mystery berries. It's an itsy bitsy little worm. Suddenly I can feel worms squiggling round inside my tummy. Yuck. My boyfriend 'I grew up on a farm so I am an expert on harvesting fruit and stuff' Yvon tells me to soak them in water for a while until all the worms float to the surface. I am doubtful about this but I soak them in a bowl of water all day anyway. In the evening, I don't see any worms floating. I drain the berries and we eat them. I feel a little queasy thinking that I may have ingested a few more mini worms and larvae.

Today I picked about a quart of these berries. (see pic from internet here http://media.photobucket.com/image/a%20quart%20of%20berries/Garden_Of_Eve/blackcaps0707071.jpg - I'm too lazy to take my own pics today.)
I washed them all and inspected each berry individually. About a third contained little clusters of worm larvae. Ew. I am soaking them all again in two separate containers, one for the worm-infested and the other for the group which supposedly contains no worms... I am waiting to see if any worms float to the surface, particularly in the group of berries that I know to contain worms. If no worms float to the surface, then I can prove that I was right and Yvon was wrong...one of my favourite pastimes.
In the meantime, I have discovered that the berries are in fact, black raspberries, which are not often grown commercially and therefore hard to come by. For more info: http://www.uga.edu/fruit/rubus.html Too bad the worm issue has dampened my enthusiasm and my appetite. On the other hand, my admiration for fruit farmers has increased.