r/mildlyinteresting • u/cromulo • 15h ago
There are bug eggs on my store bought raspberry.
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u/SlipperyGibbet 15h ago
Ooh they're cool lookin'! Anyone know what they are before we eat em?
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u/EvLokadottr 14h ago
I think they are stink bug eggs.
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u/CloakerJosh 14h ago
It's always stink bug eggs...
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u/vm_linuz 14h ago
Or termites
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u/FewHorror1019 13h ago
Just random termite eggs on fruit??
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u/vm_linuz 13h ago
Lol no, but in subreddits where people ask about their house it's a really common one
"What's this sand pile that keeps appearing in my house?"
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u/HulkeneHulda 12h ago
And in relationship posts about someone having a kink that their partner doesnt share, it always end up being a guy wanting to do anal to his girlfriend
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u/StrongStyleShiny 12h ago
“Girlfriend won’t do what I want sexually. How do I make her do what I want? Please don’t suggest communication.”
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u/Careful_Ad_9077 11h ago edited 5h ago
There's two rules for kinks.
If you want to do anal, you should get anal first so you know what you are talking about, especially if the other person is an anal noob.
If you want to have a Xsome , you should already be confortable with sex toys. It's really fun how many people fantazise about threesomes, which involves getting another human involved, yet get all nervous and scared when a simple piece of plastic enters the relationship.
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u/Zoomoth9000 10h ago
I'd get nervous, too, knowing my partner is using plastic instead of a body-safe material...
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u/Buttchuggle 10h ago
Plastic is stored in the balls anyway, plastic has always been a part of it
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u/DummyDumDragon 11h ago
And in both cases, divorce is 100% the answer.
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u/GaySheriff 11h ago
In both cases? You're telling me the solution to a termite infestation is divorce?
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u/Warthogrider74 11h ago
Yes, it solves the problem for you if your spouse gets the house
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u/Historical-Back-865 14h ago
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u/tonyrizzo21 14h ago
John Cena would appreciate the free protein.
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u/funkball 13h ago
I can't see John Cena eating bugs.
In fact... I can't see him at all!
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u/Bargadiel 14h ago
Is it weird that I find stink bugs exponentially less gross than roaches and flies, even though their name should automatically be worse?
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u/AlericandAmadeus 14h ago edited 13h ago
Yes, that is weird - they are just as much pests as cockroaches/flies, and in a lot of ways are worse.
They decimate gardens/plant life in a way that flies & roaches don’t.
AND are an invasive species in many places.
AND have a gross name.
AND they’re harder to deal with cuz you can’t just smack them without making a room uninhabitable for a bit (ya know - the stink in “stinkbug”).
EDIT: love threads like this cuz they generate good discussion, so - PRO TIP: if it is BROWN/SPOTTED with a smooth "front/shoulders" and white spotting/banding - show no mercy, give no quarter (invasive asian species, Brown Marmorated Stinkbug).
if it is brown and looks like it has little saw teeth on the front of its carapace/shoulders - NATIVE SPECIES, the Rough Stinkbug (ty u/No-Musician-4212). this one also has some white banding but in different places, and the sawtooth shoulders give it away.
the brown stinkbug is also native, but that one is like, pure brown with tiny tiny black spots everywhere so it looks different from the other two the moment you actually get close enough to see. (u/PanaceaStark)
if it is green, less easily determined, but the two most common invasive species are the southern green stinkbug (which came from africa) and the green stinkbug (Europe).
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u/Bargadiel 14h ago
The smell they make just smells like rubber to me.
But if I see one in my house it grosses me out way less than a roach or fly. I just associate those with decay.
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u/BonusDramatic1244 13h ago
The first time I killed a stink bug, it smelled like Green Apple to me
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u/iwannabeadoor 11h ago
All these replies sound like a bait to kill a stink bug to me (I've never killed one so genuinely don't know how they smell)
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u/Stormy261 13h ago edited 13h ago
It smells like cilantro to me. Once the connection was made it can never be unmade. I can still eat cilantro cooked, but can't do it raw or in large amounts anymore.
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u/SalamanderUponYou 14h ago
Is it weird that I don't smell that much of a stink when I squash them?
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u/AlericandAmadeus 14h ago edited 13h ago
Prolly cuz you are not killing actual stink bugs, you are killing other close relatives.
Stinkbugs are part of a larger family of “shield bugs”.
They all kinda look very similar to the untrained eye, but only some smell really bad.
The "invasive" ones all suck, though. They’ve been fucking up entire ecosystems on the US east coast for years now as a bunch of invasive shield bug species make their way inland/up the coast.
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u/Wrex_n_effect 14h ago
I think it’s because they’re slow, awkward, and not really all that gross to look at. Anytime I find one in the house I catch them and toss them in the yard. A roach or a fly? Nah, homie. They gonna die.
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u/floricomous 13h ago
They're one of the derpiest bugs I've ever seen. They're not really afraid of anything and just bump into things in a slow, confused manner. I just end up feeling sorry for them even though I tend to dislike bugs of any sort >.<;;;;;
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u/Disneyhorse 14h ago
You are correct, they are shield bug/ stink bug eggs.
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u/Bantersmith 12h ago
TIL: Shield bugs and stink bugs are just different names for the same thing.
We have shield bugs here in Ireland, but I cant say I've ever noticed any smell? I remember playing with them as a kid. I wonder do the ones over in the states have a stronger, more noticeable smell? Wikipedia does say the smell/intensity can vary between species, but didnt go into much detail.
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u/HermitDefenestration 12h ago
Did you kill them? Stink bugs usually only smell bad after they die, at least the ones we have in the US. It's an evolutionary adaptation to discourage predators.
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u/gorz1244 14h ago
Naw, those are nanites. They must have been sent by Skynet to make sure they win the war in the future.
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u/ellefleming 14h ago
If you ate them, what'll happen?
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u/thoawaydatrash 13h ago
Stink bugs are eaten in several cultures so I think you'll be fine. They smell like a cilantro's evil twin though, and are apparently bitter.
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u/doitup69 14h ago
OP said it’s called a raspberry…
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u/vazyrus 11h ago
I miss this dude
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u/LilMeatJ40 11h ago
Remember when we could go weeks or even months without hearing some rant or some bullshit the president was up to? Pepperidge Farms remembers
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u/DrDonkeyTron 13h ago edited 11h ago
Ahh, the ol' Raspberry-a-roo!
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u/HeyThereCharlie 11h ago
Didn't know the Reddit switcharoo was still happening. That's neat. Well, back into the abyss I go
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u/Anib-Al 14h ago
Someone had similar eggs on a raspberry. They hatched: https://www.reddit.com/r/Entomology/s/rvYurTDg9i
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u/ObliviousRounding 14h ago edited 14h ago
How do you pull up a two-year-old on-point post on an obscure (edit: I guess 'niche' is the better word) sub with not even 50 upvotes and just one comment within 15 minutes of OP?
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u/crowcawer 14h ago
Bug people are very special people.
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u/kaytay3000 12h ago
My sister and her husband are both professional bug people. Their house has dead bugs in shadow boxes on the walls and other bug-themed decor. They share bug facts and pictures regularly. They give my kids bug books for every holiday.
Special people.
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u/Wulf2k 12h ago
She's an auntomologist.
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u/kaytay3000 11h ago
I love this, but unfortunately cannot tell her because I will be forced to address her as such forever.
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u/Kitchoua 12h ago
It was obviously recluse eggs, any well connected bug person would have been able to tell that
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u/HazMatterhorn 14h ago
The post they linked is an update post to this one, which has many more upvotes and is the first result when you search “raspberry eggs” in r/entomology.
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u/Horse_HorsinAround 14h ago
"oh I remember something like that"
Googles "something like that reddit"
Post link
Not that hard, doesn't take anywhere near 15 minutes
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u/vivaldispaghetti 14h ago
I thought you were the haiku bot
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u/ZugzwangDK 13h ago
I thought you were the
haiku bot, but you are not.
just a commenter.
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u/Nervous-Ad6019 13h ago
Omg they’re lids!
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u/Global_Green8231 12h ago
lol for whatever reason I read that in the enthusiastic tone of a woman who realized her dress has pockets.
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u/Philzeey 14h ago
i fucking hate that
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u/xXmehoyminoyXx 14h ago
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u/Philzeey 13h ago
i’ve eaten bugs and blackberries!
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u/xXmehoyminoyXx 13h ago
Anyone who has eaten blackberries has. They're full of worms but perfectly safe to eat. Don't look to close.
Kinda like the mites all over your skin and eyelashes. Good pals, just don't think about them too often.
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u/Philzeey 13h ago
honestly not concerned with eating bugs, or what’s in my fruit. i just don’t like looking at that particular picture with how the eggs look lol
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u/IceLopsided4190 13h ago
Wait what the fuck did you just say?
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u/D_Beats 13h ago
Alright cool never eating blackberries again
Cool cool cool
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u/LackWooden392 13h ago
Went picking wild blackberries with my son yesterday. There were 3 spiders and 2 worms just in our small plate full.
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u/myburdentobear 13h ago
Don't worry those aren't bug eggs. They are just the raspberry's eyeballs.
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u/MoobooMagoo 14h ago
To be fair, raspberries are a soft skin fruit, so a lot of the ones you buy have fruit fly eggs inside them. Well eggs and larva too. It's basically impossible to eat soft skin fruit without eating bugs.
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u/Key-Investment-3864 13h ago
On the surface this sounds disgusting but the way I see it, if something doesn’t make me sick and I can’t tell, I don’t really care lol. Everything is gross
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u/Vaenyr 13h ago
And let's be honest. There's not much 'meat' to them, so they don't affect the taste. And if they're small enough, there's no noticeable texture either. The idea might seem gross to people, but thinking about it logically it's not that bad.
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u/Key-Investment-3864 13h ago edited 11h ago
Yeah pretty much, I can be obsessive about visible dirtiness but I had an epiphany at some point that being alive is straight up disgusting and you kinda have to just roll with it or you’ll go insane
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u/thealmightyzfactor 11h ago
Yeah, you're a meat tube grafted to a wet skeleton, constantly shedding and making waste products from the random stuff you mush up and jam down the tube just to hopefully spread your DNA to birth another one (from an evolutionary perspective anyway lol)
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u/RandomStallings 8h ago
just to hopefully spread your DNA to birth another one
Which itself is a disgusting process that's all wet, sloppy and sometimes smelly. Many diseases can only be spread through blood or sexual contact because so many fluids are swapped across tender tissues and mucous membranes. Thank God for hormones!
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u/PurpleSalt11 12h ago
What is your opinion on eating ass and having your ass eaten?
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u/Key-Investment-3864 12h ago
I’m all up in there. That was part of the epiphany. Disgust response lowers so much with attraction
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u/Aggravating_Dark9933 13h ago
Your stomach is an acid bag that only can contain how strong its acid is by constantly regenerating. It’s so strong you can actually digest raw iron to an extent. The only thing that really has us beat is carrion eaters.
Basically everything is getting melted.
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u/katlyps0 12h ago
Tell that to roundworm infections. You absolutely can get it from unwashed fruits/veggies, touching contaminated soil or surfaces and then your nose/eyes/mouth, touching unvaccinated animals without proper sanitation and fast food. 🥲
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u/ThatOneShotBruh 8h ago
Damn, didn't know that fast food was so important when handling unvaccinated animals.
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u/vantanclub 12h ago
Don't forget that bugs are everywhere, just a fact of life, and particularly in/around food no matter how much we try to sterilize our world.
For example we have standards for how many insect fragments we are allowed in flour U.S. FDA permits a "maximum of 75 insect fragments per 50 grams of wheat flour."
It's just impossible to avoid when growing things outdoors.
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u/Redmindgame 13h ago
Yep. If you ever grow blackberries, put them in a bucket of water after picking and watch all the bugs crawl/float to the top
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u/Levi_27 13h ago
Thanks I want to die. Will this work for store bought ones as well
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u/Substantial-Sea-3672 12h ago
Yes, but it doesn’t get them all out.
They are harmless and there’s no realistic way to not be eating, at the very least, dead bugs and eggs when eating berries.
You can try it yourself. Put some berries in water and find one that bugs come out of. Once they stop coming out put it in a sealed bag for a day or two, don’t refrigerate. Put that same berry in water and voila, more bugs!
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u/seraphimlynn 12h ago
That is terrifying to think about
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u/FootSpiritual4139 12h ago
On the other hand, another terrifying (though also reassuring) thought is what is actually inside your stomach and how strong it is that it just nopes all of said bugs and things out of existence.
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u/i_sell_you_lies 11h ago
As long as you don't eat the truck stop egg sandwich
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u/plz_send_cute_cats 8h ago
one day you'll be eatin' a fast-food burger and boom! you’ll be crawlin' with us again
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u/realistsnark 12h ago
The United States (FDA Guidelines)
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is very transparent about this. They publish the Food Defect Action Levels handbook, which specifies exactly how much "light filth" can be present before the government steps in to pull a product from shelves:
Certified Laboratories
Contaminant FDA Action Level Insect Filth Average of 150 or more insect fragments per 100 grams Rodent Filth Average of 1 or more rodent hairs per 50 grams See it this way: it always has been this way and you are still alive
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u/jort93 8h ago edited 8h ago
No, actually. The FDA has specific levels for specific product categories. There are no "catch all" levels. And they don't have any maximum levels for fresh berries, only for frozen and canned berries.
Things without a specific level, would be evaluated on a case by case basis.Your numbers are the numbers for wheat flour only. Also i think you simply copied an AI answer, cause the FDA says 75 per 50 grams, wikipedia calculated it for 100g for some reason. Not copied from wikipedia tho, cause they don't list the rodent hair. So i am thinking ai combined it weirdly.
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u/Friendstastegood 11h ago
The idea of berries grown in an environment completely free from bugs should terrify you more. Honestly people nowadays have too many hangups about bugs and nature.
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u/no_talent_ass_clown 13h ago
Lol, 'grow blackberries' more like beat them back aggressively year after year.
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u/Medical_Watch1569 12h ago
Oh noooo I have too many blackberries … problem I wish I had 😂
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u/georgisaurusrekt 10h ago
I love love love blackberries but it's a shame how damn ugly the bush looks outside of June - September lol
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u/Mindless_Fox216 14h ago
You just made being diabetic a little easier, thanks? 🤢
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u/Kenderean 13h ago
Aaaaaand that guarantees I won't be eating any soft skin fruit this summer.
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u/BussyPlaster 13h ago
Have you ever noticed flys around the house when you buy bananas? They aren't attracted to your bananas, they are hatching out of them.
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u/shaddowdemon 13h ago
This thread is running fruit for me :(
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u/ThanksContent28 12h ago edited 7h ago
A lot of it is exaggerated, as always on social media. Partly true, but made to sound scarier than it is.
Raspberries and other soft fruits can sometimes contain tiny insects, insect eggs, or larvae. Fruit flies and other insects lay eggs on ripening fruit outdoors. Commercial growers try to minimize this, but it’s impossible to guarantee that every berry is completely insect free. However, it’s not true that most raspberries you buy are full of eggs and larvae. The vast majority are perfectly fine, and any insects present are usually tiny and harmless.
The blueberry in water thing is partly real:
If you soak blueberries, blackberries, or raspberries in water (especially salt water), you may occasionally see tiny insects emerge. That doesn’t mean every berry is infested. People often post dramatic videos online because they deliberately use berries that happened to contain insects.
ETA: this same fear is spread about chocolate and stuff too, but it’s simply not explained realistically. I always use the example of a tiny fly’s foot, or its eyelash. Bugs in your chocolate sounds off putting, but a tiny little fly foot that you probably couldn’t make out without a microscope? Completely insignificant.
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u/Appropriate-Joke-806 12h ago
The fruit fly calls are coming from inside the house.
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u/Avobolt 14h ago
you should consider updating your OS if you have bugs on your raspberry
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u/cre8ivenail 11h ago
Stink bug eggs. I know someone has said it by now. If you like stink bugs put it outside, if you hate stink bugs kill them, if you like gross things eat them.
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u/Shot_Independence274 15h ago
it looks like brown marmorated stink bugs
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u/Wheatleytron 14h ago
Delicious
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u/Panda_In_A_Box 12h ago
That picture makes me feel so uncomfortable
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u/Zefyris 12h ago
minor Trypophobia maybe?
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u/FeelPureLust 11h ago
Oh yeah, that's it. Something about the pic makes it hard to swallow with this uneasy feeling on my back and arms. But it's just not triggering ... kinda just teasing with a horrible time
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u/thelostone42 12h ago
Oh look at Mr richy rich here able to afford a whole raspberry. Rub it in our faces why don't you.
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u/veryCluckyChicken 8h ago
This is so disturbing how highly detailed it is i didnt know thats what bug eggs look like up close i dont like it
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u/itsathrowawayduhhhhh 14h ago
The weirdest shit will trigger my trypophobia I swear. This makes me want to vomit lol
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u/verdantsf 14h ago
To be fair, this is supposedly exactly what trypophobia has been theorized to protect against.
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u/guababanana 11h ago
This triggered my trypophobia too and my skin is crawling and I feel weeeeird 🤢
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u/ashoka_akira 13h ago
So, plants are grown in the dirt and if you eat fruit or vegetables you’re also unintentionally eating bug protein. The disturbing thing is most bugs are a lot less dangerous than the human who packaged them not washing their hands after taking a dump.
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u/captainfarthing 12h ago
Yes but my lizard brain says if I eat these they'll hatch inside me so it says "no".
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u/SharkeyGeorge 14h ago
Let them hatch and imprint on you. Raise them as your own brood.
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u/joe199799 15h ago
Some phones have macro cameras now (my pixel does) I work in pest control so it's fun to get macro pictures of cool bugs.
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u/OmegaKarnov 14h ago
The worst part is how good the photo. Incredibly crisp detail.