5 ms·
Id love to know which other organic fruits or veggies are prone to having "free riders" mixed in with the produce
by IG_Semmelweiss 4y ago
Id love to know which other organic fruits or veggies are prone to having "free riders" mixed in with the produce
- boltzmann-brain 4y agograpes often have whole web orbs inside them with a spider inside the orb.
- pprotas 4y agoYou mean the spider is chilling inside of the grape? Why would the spider do that, wouldn’t that make catching bugs harder?
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- boltzmann-brain 4y agothere's a web inside the bunch, in the space between the grapes. not in the grape itself.
- Foobar8568 4y agoRaspberry would often have insects (including what I guess are stinky bug larvae), salads, persimmons, grapes, abricots, plums, chestnuts to name a few fruits that often carry either worms in the fruit or over.
- HideousKojima 4y agoI once found a caterpillar in a (non-organic) ear of corn from Walmart
- fakedang 4y agoNot exactly free riders. As other comments have mentioned, the figs pollinate via the wasps. You are meant to eat ze bugs, and be happy.
- whacked_new 4y agoI used to buy and eat organic brussel sprouts from Trader Joe's. Then one day, for some reason, I decided to take a closer look, and found a little green worm crawling about. After removing it, I found another, and another, until I lost both the count and my appetite. I read that it's normal for brussel sprouts to have these kinds of worms in them, so I must have eaten lots and lots of them. Shrugs, but I can't stand the sight of the worms, so I have never bought brussel sprouts, anywhere, ever since. I still eat them at restaurants. But only if they're fried or grilled, because that decreases the chances that I'll see a worm. Unfortunately thanks to this article I'll probably avoid dried figs now because I can't disassociate the visuals.