They are not to be mistaken for fruit flies. When the leaves of the plant turn back, there you will find them. They do not speak. They talk to each other with their noses. The nose knows.
Pepperberry fairies work hard.
They pull and tug the berries off the plants and roll them to dry in the sun. A dried pepperberry is called a peppercorn. When the berries are all dried-up hard balls, pepperberry fairies really go to work pounding, biting, kicking, hammering and jumping until the peppercorn cracks into fine pepper. They do sneeze a lot when they crack the corns. They are known as the sneeziest fairies for another reason as well.