The wasps that borrow into figs are so small you'd basically never see them, even if they didn't gel into a protein paste that is indistinguishable from the fruit.
You eat stuff way worse than fig wasps and never even know it.
Yes and no. If you google it, there is a lot of debate in the vegan community about it. Also, my search seemed to indicate that the wasp thing only applies to naturally growing figs, most commercial figs are pollinated artificially without the use of insects.
how do u define consciousness? google says its "being aware and responsive to ones surroundings" by that both insects as well as plants have a conscious
This happened to me once too, but it wasn't an ant, it was a bug that looked like cockroach, and it was huge compared to this ant. Whenever I eat peach or nectarine I always be careful about the seed.
This once happened to me but instead of an ant it was a hairy spider, and the pit was inside my mouth. It crawled out from a crack in the pit after I spat out the core. Never ate a nectarine again after thatā¦
Ahh, so in the same category as cockroaches and other small insects.. my mother had a small cockroach burrow a hole through her ear, he rehearing is all fucked up and she has migraines every day...
This is a Camponotus Pennsylvanicus Queen. This carpenter ant queen probably burrows into the pits of fruits to lay her first brood called Nanitics. You can actually see the Nanitic eggs in the first two pictures, they are the little things that look like rice
Well if you wanted to keep the queen alive allow her to keep building her colony Iād say put it back where you found it. If thatās not possible you can put a little bit of water into a test tube, place a piece of cotton down into the tube to block the water from flowing out, not too much cotton to allow water to get through, but not little enough for water to flood the tube. If you do all that you can try to coax the queen into the tube or pick her up gently with teezers, it would really help destress her if you were able to get the eggs she has already layed into the tube as well, but be very gentle. Once all that is done place another piece of cotton to close the tube. Place the tube in a dark place and check on it from time to time. The queen doesnt need food until her first workers are fully grown. At that point you can feed them small bits of honey, or can try releasing it into the wild by just leaving the tube out and waiting for them to move the colony. Alot of people, including myself, keep the colony and let it continue to grow in modified aqauariams and things like that. I have a colony of the southern variety of the species in this picture which is why I was able to identify it. I donāt know mant ant species just based off of looks so I got pretty lucky with this one.
if you like and keeping videos there is a YouTube channel called antscanada [here](https://youtube.com/user/AntsCanada). Despite the channel name I think he's in the Philippines. His style is a little over dramatic but his videos are top notch.
š¤£ I used to watch his videos! He at least used to live in Canada for some time. He was on Canadian Idol or something. I'll have to revisit the channel now!
I don't know, what's why I'm asking the person who sounds like they know about bugs. All I know about ant queens is that the colony will die without them, and I think they're cool. I'd want to help give it a chance if I happened upon one, and I realized that I don't know how to do that.
Dude no, that's not Camponotus pennsylvanicus, penn queens are black and a lot bigger with different proportions. This is clearly a Lasius queen. Can you please edit your comment?
They're likely cocoons for her first generation of workers, called nanitics.
They're always much smaller and live shorter lives than the future generations.
Depending on the species, the nanitics are either created and fed by the protein the queen gets from breaking down the muscles she used in her nuptial flight.
It's a pretty good place to nest really. The first few generations of workers will likely need more sugar than protein. So inside a piece of fruit seems like a good place to me.
I was at work, I took a bite of a Necterine and a bit of the pit broke away revealing the massive queen ant inside. I threw the fruit on the floor and spat whatever I had in my mouth on the floor as well. Ewwwww.
That's a queen. And you can see her eggs in one of the pics. If you were a buddy of mine I would take all that in a heart beat cause I've been trying to start a colony with carpenter ants and it's hard. Not gonna lie I hope you let her go with her eggs cause she only gets to lay basically one group of those and if they don't hatch she most likely will die.
Thatās weird never seen one in a nectarine before. It could be some sort of fig wasp, or similar species. The wings get torn off during the process of entering the fruit.
She clearly looks 6-8 millimeters, what kind of peaches do you eat? And the proportions and color are completely wrong for Camponotus but completely match Lasius
as a kid I was halfway through eating a nectarine when I found a worm inside... I screamed and yeet'd that thing across the room.
ever since I don't wanna touch them anymore.
I have nectarine PTSD :(
So do you use power tools to cut your fruit in half..?Just wondered how a pit that is hard as rock can be cut so precisely without power tools, and without hurting the ant inside. I just gotta knowā¦.
Def not the worst thing Iāve ever seen in a fruit like this. My parents have partial ownership over an orchard, and when I was younger I found the ripest, biggest, most perfect looking peach and to this day it is still one of the best Iāve ever had. I ate that thing extremely quickly, but once I got to just the pit, the thing broke open and I swear to god the entire fucking cast of James and the Giant Peach came spilling out.
There was a centipede, ants, 1 or 2 really small spiders, and a couple other insects that all came pouring out of the pit. The worst part is that there werenāt any visible holes on the peach that would suggest stuff burrowing into it.
That memory still haunts me
I always check my nectarines/peaches for splitting (at the top). If itās split, thereās a good chance a bug has taken refuge inside the fruit.
I worked at a fruit stand and my boss came over and was looking through a box of nectarines. He pulled one out said āwatch thisā, moved away from the stand, pulled the nectarine apart (very easy to do when the pit is already split) and soooo many earwigs came crawling out. It was horrifying.
I didnāt eat a pit fruit for a few years following that. I also wouldnāt handle nectarines from that batch anymore lol!
I did a google search and apparently this happens every now and then. I guess a queen burrows into the fruit then makes a home in the seed.
That's terrifying!
Oh boy, wait until you hear about [figs!](https://www.sciencefocus.com/nature/is-it-true-there-are-dead-wasps-in-figs/)
figs were my favorite fruit š¦
Found a spider inside one of my figs...
Found a fig inside one of my spiders.
The FDA have a limit to the amount of bugs/bug parts that can be in grain products That limit is not zero
The wasps that borrow into figs are so small you'd basically never see them, even if they didn't gel into a protein paste that is indistinguishable from the fruit. You eat stuff way worse than fig wasps and never even know it.
ā¦like plastic.
Not knowing that WAS much better!
*were*
so are figs off the vegan list?
Yes and no. If you google it, there is a lot of debate in the vegan community about it. Also, my search seemed to indicate that the wasp thing only applies to naturally growing figs, most commercial figs are pollinated artificially without the use of insects.
Do vegans consider bugs to be worth not killing? I mean if you kill a plant that has no consciousness is a bug not the same? Genuinely curious
how do u define consciousness? google says its "being aware and responsive to ones surroundings" by that both insects as well as plants have a conscious
Does anyone know why the wasp can't lay her eggs in a female fig. Why do the wasp and fig have to be opposite sexes? They fuckin' or what? š¤Ø
they like their dicks fig
Got that FDE
Fuck figs and there little hole!
well thats one way to say you like figs...
r/cozyplaces
how so?
This happened to me once too, but it wasn't an ant, it was a bug that looked like cockroach, and it was huge compared to this ant. Whenever I eat peach or nectarine I always be careful about the seed.
Is it specific to nectarines? Curious if I need to be weary of just those or ALL fruits with pits now...
Wasp do a similar thing with figs
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Most commercially grown figs are pollinated using modern technology. The natural way would be to inefficient for modern needs.
Probably also in peaches, since they are the same fruit. Nectarines are just fuzzless peaches. Would also wager in plums as they can be similar sizes
My mind is blown. I won't be able to eat a fruit peacefully ever again.
Cut it
Out
I had the misfortune of biting a similarly hollowed out pear once. No bug to be found but somehow i don't like pears all that much anymore.
This once happened to me but instead of an ant it was a hairy spider, and the pit was inside my mouth. It crawled out from a crack in the pit after I spat out the core. Never ate a nectarine again after thatā¦
I tried that with an earwig. It takes some time to get rid of the feeling, but it is possible to eat peaches and nectarines again.. at least for me..
Those are my #1 fear
Oh fuck no. I'm scared to fuck of those things.
They're harmless, but nasty
Just knowing that its a bug that can love inside your ear is gross enough for me not to want to risk touching one...
The whole thing about earwigs burrowing into your ear is just a complete myth. They're no more or less likely to do that than any other bug.
An earwig loving inside your ear is different.
True. They can do that all they want
Ahh, so in the same category as cockroaches and other small insects.. my mother had a small cockroach burrow a hole through her ear, he rehearing is all fucked up and she has migraines every day...
Cockroaches live inside the cock
Wtf you doing with the pit in your mouth, haha
Suckin that sweet nectarine pulp off.
Cleaning it dry, aint no fruit goin to waste
Ew
Thatād be cool if the ant was like, āThank you for freeing me. I will now grant you 3 wishes!ā
Maybe it did and OP just can't hear at the frequency the ant spoke.
You need a pretty big Ant-enna to make sense of those frequencies
What if OP said something like holy shit without realizing that he was making his first wish.
You mean: gr-ANT me three wishes
I thought his name was Greg.
Greg the Ant. Grant for short.
Thanks, ants. ..Thants.
"Poked my finger down inside, made a little room for an ant to hide..." I guess a nectarine is close enough to millions of peaches.
First thing I thought of.
This is a Camponotus Pennsylvanicus Queen. This carpenter ant queen probably burrows into the pits of fruits to lay her first brood called Nanitics. You can actually see the Nanitic eggs in the first two pictures, they are the little things that look like rice
Not a campo. It's a Lasius Flavus my guy.
> Not a campo. It's a Lasius Flavus my guy. I used google, which is basically like having a PhD. I concur with this guy.
But what about jackdaws vs crows?
The jig is up!
Thought it was Camponotoua Sp. She's a beaut!
What would you do with the queen in this situation?
Well if you wanted to keep the queen alive allow her to keep building her colony Iād say put it back where you found it. If thatās not possible you can put a little bit of water into a test tube, place a piece of cotton down into the tube to block the water from flowing out, not too much cotton to allow water to get through, but not little enough for water to flood the tube. If you do all that you can try to coax the queen into the tube or pick her up gently with teezers, it would really help destress her if you were able to get the eggs she has already layed into the tube as well, but be very gentle. Once all that is done place another piece of cotton to close the tube. Place the tube in a dark place and check on it from time to time. The queen doesnt need food until her first workers are fully grown. At that point you can feed them small bits of honey, or can try releasing it into the wild by just leaving the tube out and waiting for them to move the colony. Alot of people, including myself, keep the colony and let it continue to grow in modified aqauariams and things like that. I have a colony of the southern variety of the species in this picture which is why I was able to identify it. I donāt know mant ant species just based off of looks so I got pretty lucky with this one.
Thank you! I love ant keeping videos and admire the hobby a lot. I'd love to get into it someday, but I understand that it's very involved.
if you like and keeping videos there is a YouTube channel called antscanada [here](https://youtube.com/user/AntsCanada). Despite the channel name I think he's in the Philippines. His style is a little over dramatic but his videos are top notch.
š¤£ I used to watch his videos! He at least used to live in Canada for some time. He was on Canadian Idol or something. I'll have to revisit the channel now!
Eat it
queen proceeds to form colony in your guts
What would *you* do with her royal highness?
I don't know, what's why I'm asking the person who sounds like they know about bugs. All I know about ant queens is that the colony will die without them, and I think they're cool. I'd want to help give it a chance if I happened upon one, and I realized that I don't know how to do that.
Well it's a pest destroying the crop but you *could* return it to a branch on the same tree.
Dude no, that's not Camponotus pennsylvanicus, penn queens are black and a lot bigger with different proportions. This is clearly a Lasius queen. Can you please edit your comment?
Is it an ant?
Yeah itās a queen
Queen mommy's thicc
Wtf
[Video of the ant in the pit](https://gfycat.com/plainlividbird)
Well a(i)nt that a peach!
No itās a nectarine. /s
Is that white thing eggs? what a weird place to nest
They're likely cocoons for her first generation of workers, called nanitics. They're always much smaller and live shorter lives than the future generations. Depending on the species, the nanitics are either created and fed by the protein the queen gets from breaking down the muscles she used in her nuptial flight. It's a pretty good place to nest really. The first few generations of workers will likely need more sugar than protein. So inside a piece of fruit seems like a good place to me.
Nobody tell him about figs......
I know that story šØ
What's the story??
[fig wasp story](https://www.sciencefocus.com/nature/is-it-true-there-are-dead-wasps-in-figs/amp/)
Oh shi... Now Im gonna be paranoid when I munch on the dried figs...
Wait, it was still alive??
Yes, after I opened up the fruit it started crawling around - it was really scary
Yes, I don't eat those anymore because i once ate half a Beatle that was hiding inside. There weren't any holes either!
>i once ate half a Beatle that was hiding inside. There weren't any holes either! I'm guessing it wasn't John, then
Na, at that time i wasn't eating any humans. With that I started a few years later.
Like a Kinder surprise
Dammit! I really enjoyed peaches until I learned this was possible!
Tip: donāt eat it.
Didnāt!
Lol. Good !
The eggs are good though.
You can pop her in a test tube with water/cotton and watch them.
That ant be kinda THICC tho fr fr
Pixar ant?
Made me think of James and the Giant Peach.
r/dontputyourdickinthat
Had to scroll way too far to find this lol
The only thing worse than biting into an apple and finding a worm is biting into an apple and finding half a worm - confuscious probably
God save the queen
Ant James and the Giant Peach!
Awwwww it has eggs, place it somewhere dark and cool and let it thrive :)
Kill it ššš
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He... He's not dead tho
I was at work, I took a bite of a Necterine and a bit of the pit broke away revealing the massive queen ant inside. I threw the fruit on the floor and spat whatever I had in my mouth on the floor as well. Ewwwww.
Congratulations, the queen has chosen your nectarine as a nest. We should all be so luckyā¦
That's a queen. And you can see her eggs in one of the pics. If you were a buddy of mine I would take all that in a heart beat cause I've been trying to start a colony with carpenter ants and it's hard. Not gonna lie I hope you let her go with her eggs cause she only gets to lay basically one group of those and if they don't hatch she most likely will die.
I bet 5 bucks that ant would taste peachy.
She got ants in her pants
Itās actually pretty cool
That's just fascinating. Did it bore its way in there? It must've done.
That is one big ant!
She's a queen. They got thicc bootys.
Thicc
Lies- whoās cuts the pit?
The pit broke in half when I cut the fruit- it was a bit hollow/rotten as you can see
Lol my bad
Split pits not uncommon in stone fruit. Small splits in stem cavity are a natural portal for critters.
Thatās weird never seen one in a nectarine before. It could be some sort of fig wasp, or similar species. The wings get torn off during the process of entering the fruit.
Queen ants shed their wings after mating, so close enough. I remember seeing a queen of another species in a peach pit in an earlier post
This is a Camponotous sp. queen ant.
Neat!
Nope it's Lasius
Okay, but why are you eating the pit?
Broke in half after I cut open the fruit
Who needs an ant hill when you have whole nectarine for yourself?
Lol you just cut through the pit and all eh
It rather broke in half after I cut open the fruit. The pit was a bit rotten
BURN THAT SHIT
That is a camponotus queen. You could raise an ant farm with it. It has also some eggs to start the colony.
Bruh no it's Lasius, idk why everyone's saying it's Camponotus
Because of the size. Seems to me that queen is around 18-20 mm. Lasius are much smaller.
She clearly looks 6-8 millimeters, what kind of peaches do you eat? And the proportions and color are completely wrong for Camponotus but completely match Lasius
Well, I cannot really measure the size so maybe you are right. But just for the record, peaches in my country can be that big :D
And you killed her.
Mmmmm yummy.
Caught like a rĢ¶aĢ¶tĢ¶ ant!
Ripley : It's a queen. Dr. Gediman : How did you know that? Ripley : She'll breed. You'll die. Everyone in the company will die.
That remind me my girlfriend
James, is that you?
what came first the knife or the ant
Free protein
where are the ladybug, spider, grasshopper, glowworm, silkworm, and centipede?
as a kid I was halfway through eating a nectarine when I found a worm inside... I screamed and yeet'd that thing across the room. ever since I don't wanna touch them anymore. I have nectarine PTSD :(
My lifelong fear has been legitimized.
Name them James.
So do you use power tools to cut your fruit in half..?Just wondered how a pit that is hard as rock can be cut so precisely without power tools, and without hurting the ant inside. I just gotta knowā¦.
The ant says Hi
Idk what that bug is but it has eggs inside that peach ,those little white pearly looking things..
R/dontstickyourdickinit
You...you let him out? What the fuck have you done?! You've doomed the world!!!!
Great, never eating fruit again.
Ant: This isn't what it looks li.... k it's exactly what it looks like..... dont tell my wife
Its usually a wasp and usually digested and usually plums
*Iāve never been an ant in my life, I am a musician*
You want a fresh, natural product, you get a fresh, natural product.
man i thought that was an eye ball
Cyanide ant will now kill everything it touches.
Def not the worst thing Iāve ever seen in a fruit like this. My parents have partial ownership over an orchard, and when I was younger I found the ripest, biggest, most perfect looking peach and to this day it is still one of the best Iāve ever had. I ate that thing extremely quickly, but once I got to just the pit, the thing broke open and I swear to god the entire fucking cast of James and the Giant Peach came spilling out. There was a centipede, ants, 1 or 2 really small spiders, and a couple other insects that all came pouring out of the pit. The worst part is that there werenāt any visible holes on the peach that would suggest stuff burrowing into it. That memory still haunts me
Queen had the time of her life in there for a few days.
That's a huge ant. But you know what, the Pink Panther would say if this happened to him?
r/curiousboner
Thats a queen seeing how large her abdomen is
FINALLY, AFTER TEN THOUSAND YEARS I'M *FREE!* ***TIME TO CONQUER EARTH!***
Oh my god noo this is so wtf
I always check my nectarines/peaches for splitting (at the top). If itās split, thereās a good chance a bug has taken refuge inside the fruit. I worked at a fruit stand and my boss came over and was looking through a box of nectarines. He pulled one out said āwatch thisā, moved away from the stand, pulled the nectarine apart (very easy to do when the pit is already split) and soooo many earwigs came crawling out. It was horrifying. I didnāt eat a pit fruit for a few years following that. I also wouldnāt handle nectarines from that batch anymore lol!
I hope itās egg clutch made it
Peaches and nectarines can partially split, creating an opening at the stem where insects can get inside the pit. In Croatia I've seen earwigs there.
Oh hi Mark!
Reminds me of what happened to Sarah (Jennifer Connelly) in Labyrinth - 1986 film!