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Originally posted by Zigenare View Post
Finding "a bug" isn't a problem, it's when you find "half a bug"...
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Originally posted by d000hg View PostIf you grow your own fruit and veg, you are routinely eating bugs even if you inspect things and especially if you aren't. I don't know what percentage of blackberries/raspberries have tiny maggots inside but it's quite common. If you put them in a bowl of water the amount of critters floating to the top is surprising and if you pick and eat fresh from the plant those are not getting removed.
All part of 'natural' growing - you just hope they're too small to notice
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If you grow your own fruit and veg, you are routinely eating bugs even if you inspect things and especially if you aren't. I don't know what percentage of blackberries/raspberries have tiny maggots inside but it's quite common. If you put them in a bowl of water the amount of critters floating to the top is surprising and if you pick and eat fresh from the plant those are not getting removed.
All part of 'natural' growing - you just hope they're too small to notice
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Originally posted by ladymuck View Post
Extra protein!
Never managed to actually find the remnants in a fig.
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Yum.
Although I suspect if any were alive in the figs we picked last week, they probably died when the chutney was made.
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Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View PostSaw a ruby tailed wasp a couple of weeks ago, attention attracted by the metallic green sheen of its body.
https://www.insectweek.co.uk/discove...Tailed%20Wasps.
Tiny & parasitic.
...then don't read this.
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Dragonfly.
One of our cats is extremely adept at catching those as they fly* around the garden.
* the dragonflies, not the catLast edited by Dark Black; 16 August 2022, 15:36.
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Originally posted by Dark Black View Post
Fascinating, never seen one of those.
Fortunately for the bees, it didn't find any there & eventually flew away.
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Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View PostSaw a ruby tailed wasp a couple of weeks ago, attention attracted by the metallic green sheen of its body.
https://www.insectweek.co.uk/discove...Tailed%20Wasps.
Tiny & parasitic.
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Saw a ruby tailed wasp a couple of weeks ago, attention attracted by the metallic green sheen of its body.
https://www.insectweek.co.uk/discove...Tailed%20Wasps.
Tiny & parasitic.
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