Yes.

Yeah, it's cool. I know I won't be popping a spider into my mouth because I inspect each grape to see if it's still in good shape and then wash them each. All other produce should go through the same inspections before eating as well.

"I'll take spots on my apples, just give me the birds and the bees"

Spiders give me the willies. But I still wash my fruit, so it's not like I'd be popping the spider in my mouth.

it would gross me out significantly but i dont think it's the end of the world

I definitely ate an worm in my apple the other day. Took a bite, looked down at my apple and saw half a (dead) worm staring back. Not awesome, I've been cutting my apples ever since.

Produce needs to be washed before eating anyway, and if thoroughly washed and inspected at that time, any hitchhikers should be discovered then. Better a bug you can see (and even if you ate it, it probably wouldn't hurt you) than loads of pesticides and crap you can't see getting into your system everywhere you go...

No way! When I was younger I was eating raspberries in my cereal and when I went to put one in my mouth, I discovered a big beetle had been hiding wedged inside it. So, no bugs please. Especially not spiders, they seriously freak me out.

Also, why the heck is raspberry spelled with a "p"?

hellokitty87 - you ate part of a worm? GROSS! I think that would have freaked me out. But that's just me.

I just think if people looked their produce over (which they should anyway) it would be an issue.

JustJess, I was thinking that same song when I read this post!

WASH your produce, sillly girls as long as the bug is dead, I'm ok with it.

Really the FDA allows a certain amount of rat droppings, insects, etc into our foods everyday. We just dont know we are eating them.

Of course - just wash your produce if you don't like bugs!
Plus I get really excited when I find a snail, since I love poking snails in the eyes.

I'm total bug phobic but I don't want pesticides either. Quite a conundrum

I don't mind the bugs. Picking veggies and fruit from my garden I find them all the time. Just inspect and wash thoroughly. Not unless there's obvious insect activity on the produce

When you find bugs in your garden that's fine.

When i find a bug in something i've paid good money for, that's unnacceptable for me.

Whether the produce is organic or not, there is no way that these items should go to the shelves containing bugs.

Also, i don't want the weight of spiders and other criters adding to the price/lb. i pay at the grocery store. times are tight people!

advah... wtf? you can't be serious... right?

i love bugs, but i get that some people are afraid of and/or grossed out by them. but compared to toxic poisons? come on! i know which i'd rather be washing off my food.

I always wash my fruits/veggies. But I couldn't take seeing a bug in or on one of them. BTW, does anyone, know what type of bug that is in the pic? I had a large one stuck on my car last summer for two days. When I knocked it off it made a very strange noise. If anyone knows, let me know, just curious. Thanks!

People not wanting bugs in foods grown on trees and in the dirt. People refusing to eat animal parts if it still looks like an animal/has a face/has eyes.

Wow, when did so many people become so removed from their food and where it comes from.

Depends on if the spider is dead or alive, haha.
That said, I always wash my produce.

I lose my appetite when I see a bug, even one thats not in my food. It grosses me out. If I found a bug in my food.... oh EWWWW, i dont even want to imagine it.

I usually buy organic produce, and I wash it well and look it over first to make sure. I've never had a problem with finding any bugs– yet.

Depends on the kind of bug... a worm or a beetle or even a regular kind of spider, I could handle. An exotic spider that's poisonous or a scorpion? No. No deadly bugs, please.

I am horribly, scream inducing, afraid of worms, the way others are afraid of spiders, rats, sharks, and/or commitment.

When I was around four years old I was shucking corn in the back yard (I loved the silk) and a fat old white worm came crawling out. I refuse to shuck corn to this day.

Krradford - it's a green stink bug. They usually are more prevalent in the South, and they suck sap and stuff out of leaves.

(and fruits and vegetables)

I inspect most anything before I eat it, maybe I'm just paranoid about this sort of thing.

I'm still traumatized from when I found a green worm in my pre-washed salad bag 3 years ago. No way would I accept seeing an 'occasional" bug!

Meh, I've found caterpillars in my organic lettuce, little flies on my organic peppers and assorted other little creatures. The best bug incident though came when my fiancee and I were having a romantic evening away with champagne and strawberries (which of course were organic) when a great big daddy-longlegs came sauntering out of the berries onto my hand. I screamed and then laughed hysterically. I would rather have a bug here and there rather than the scary chemicals that I can't see.

im not that huge on all organic fruit, so im gonna go with a no bug on this one. i scrub before i eat anyway so its all good.

I heard there was a brown recluse in some bananas at a Whole Foods and they had to call a special spider wrangler to kill it. The guy said it was the most aggressive spider he's ever seen. It could have killed someone. So now I don't accept bugs in my produce.

heck no. absolutely not.

They can even be in conventional produce as well. Like the above comment from fleurfairy. I was working at a grocery store when the product guy found a huge tarantula in with the bananas from South America. Luckily it wasn't the poisonous type like the recluse, but it was very freaky!! Fruits and vegetables grow outside it's just a fact that they will be bugs! I used to prepare (wash) the lettuce at times for the department and would find many bugs after letting it soak. Most produce departments prep your produce ahead of time so many of you have no idea because it has been washed first before putting it out.

produce guy ... not product guy

I can deal with other bugs, but I'm almost pathologically arachnophobic. If I found a spider on something I was about to eat I probably have a nervous breakdown.

this has happened to me. i bought a bag of green grapes, i don't remember what kind, but they were smaller and more compact than your regular variety. and i had washed them in the sink, and put them in the fridge. i had been eating them here and there, and a couple days later when i go to reach for a grape something moved! it was a pale green spider that had been hanging out deep inside a grape cluster. i released him outside...but what a tough bug! survived vine to shelf to sink to fridge!

My grandpa was an entomologist and he always told us "Bugs are people, too". They're part of our ecosystem and produce comes from THE OUTDOORS so yeah, you're probably going to find the odd beetle, slug, worm, or whatever on your food. Just wash it off well and look it over before you eat it. I get sweet corn from my garden and we don't spray it for corn borers, so every so often we'll find a couple of ears that have them inside...just cut off the eaten part and eat them anyway.

You can find bugs even when pesticides are used. They don't eat much. Now bugs in things that aren't raw, that's where I draw the line. If something has been processed, I don't want to find a spider in it.

i totally get that there a bugs out there in the field and that it's a natural pesticide and all that - but honestly, i'd be happy to not have them in my food. it's just not something that i'm looking forward to.

I had a spider crawl out of some berries I bought. At least it was alive. I can't stand those dead flies or whatever they are that you find in lettuce.

I can handle picking out a dead bug...it's when there's a live spider I have to chase around the kitchen that would creep me out.

OMG, kerabelle, ME TOO! I freak even if they're only on television and if the ground is wet after a rain, I will not look down.

I was beginning to think I was the only one. My misery likes the company, though.

I hope I'm not jinxing myself but I've never had this problem.

that really depends on the bug. (soooo not a fan of spiders in my house.)

I am with mamasitamilita on this one...I always wash my produce first. So unless the bug is inside the food itself I find the before they end up near my mouth.

Just wash your produce... you should anyway even while they were using pesticides.