I just ate a corn and a worm fell out. Could i be infested with worms? Can they crael out of the trash?

Question

I put a husk from Harris Teeter in the microwave. I removed the husk. The ends looked weird but the middle part was ok, yellow and fresh looking. As I was eating a long worm dropped out of the end. I almost had a heart attack. I am going to avoid corn for the rest of my life. I threw the remaining corn I bought in the trash. I'm thinking about throwing everything out of the fridge. Uggghhhh!!!!

Answer 1

dont feel bad i was going to have corn on the cob for dinner one night i was shucking the corn and there were several worms in one of them and i dropped the corn and screamed and was terrifed lol all over some little worms i threw all the corn out and like you i dont want corn anymore lol but i doubt your infested with worms just throw them out and feel better knowing your not the only one out there that was the victim of corn worms lol . ( :

Answer 2

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I just ate a corn and a worm fell out. Could i be infested with worms? Can they crael out of the trash?
I put a husk from Harris Teeter in the microwave. I removed the husk. The ends looked weird but the middle part was ok, yellow and fresh looking. As I was eating a long worm dropped out of the end. I almost had a heart attack. I am going to avoid corn for the rest of my life. I threw the remaining...

Answer 3

Corn Worms

Answer 4

You can't be invested with worms. Happens 2 me all the time. Some lucky little worm found a home in some corn, before it was sold. I don't know if you can do something about it, apart from looking out, and expecting the unexpected.
Hope this helps.

Answer 5

It could be worse. *HALF* a worm could have fallen out.

It's possible that the worm could crawl out of the trash, but it wouldn't fall very far.

Nothing else in the fridge is contaminated. None of the rest of the corn would be contaminated by that one ear.

The person who cleans the ear is supposed to remove husks, silks, and worms.

Avoiding corn will eliminate this unpleasantness you know about, but it will leave you wide open to the ones you don't know about. It'd be better to examine your ears thoroughly before you eat them, and eat nothing BUT corn....

Answer 6

sorry but I am giggling so hard. I havent ever seen long worms in corn, but I have seenn plenty of grubs and larvae and that happens. Vegitables are grown outside and there are bug everywhere you can get rid of all of them. But before buying them you should really husk them and look for dark spots and holes (worm holes) if you see them, do not buy that particular ear of corn. If you microwaved the corn I dont see how the worm survived to drop out of the end. Thats horrible but still got me giggling when I pictured how you reacted. Probably a scream and a hole lot of freaking out!! LOL!

Answer 7

Unless you ate any of the worm, you should be fine; even if you did you probably won't notice any ill effects other than being grossed out. The types of worms found in corn do not infest the human body. This is a common, natural occurrence, albeit off putting.

"Worms Like Corn, Too

Corn! There is no food that is any more American, even apple pie. Corn, or maize as it is known worldwide, originated in North America, and for centuries, was a staple food for Native Americans. Today we still eat lots of corn as meal, in breakfast cereal, or whole kernels out of the can.



To many people the best way to eat corn is directly off the cob. Corn on the cob, or roasting ears as they are sometimes known, is one of the traditional foods of summer in the Midwest. Cookouts, county and state fairs wouldn't be quite the same without corn on the cob roasted over a charcoal fire.



Almost as much of a tradition as eating corn on the cob is removing the shuck from the ear and finding a worm feasting on the kernels. Yes, insects like sweet corn, too! And one of the insects with a taste for sweet corn has a name that reflects its propensity for showing up on corn ears. It's called the corn earworm. This insect, known scientifically as Heliothis zea, is one of the worst insect pests of corn. It is an insect that is found around the world and is a very general feeder. For instance, it also is known as the tobacco budworm, the tomato fruitworm, the cotton bollworm and the vetchworm because it feeds on those plants as well as many others.



So how does the worm get into the end of the sweet corn ear? In the adult stage, the earworm is a moth. The female moth flies about looking for good food plants for her offspring. When she finds such a food, like the silk on the ear of corn, she deposits an egg — something she might do 1,000 times in her lifetime. The egg hatches and the worm begins feeding on silks. Eventually the worm works its way into the ear tip, where it consumes the developing kernels.



Earworms grow quickly, so they are nearly full grown — about 2 inches long — when the corn is ready for human consumption. Earworms not only eat the kernels down to the cob, they add insult to injury by leaving a mess behind. Yes, corn tissue run through the digestive system of an earworm is left on the ear as a moist, yellowish-brown mass.



Most people don't like to find worms sharing their summer feast of sweet corn, so producers try to limit the number of earworms by treating the corn plants with insecticide when needed. The worms generally feed only in the ear tip, so many people remove the worm and its damage by breaking off the tip before plopping the ear into a pot of boiling water.



One thing about earworms in corn is that there is seldom more than one per ear. These worms are such voracious eaters that when they encounter another worm on an ear, one of them gets devoured. That's the way it is with eating corn on the cob, most people don't want to share with someone else!"

Answer 8

Yeah, take the trash to the curb, too. Maybe spray the can w/ bug spray, then put a lid on it for good measure.

I'm sure the food in your fridge is fine. The worm stayed right where he was... he was happy and had no reason to elave. But I sure hope he was dead after he'd been nuked!!!

Answer 9

Fine
Typical reaction of a city folk
you should have ate the worm it would taste just like the corn.
:~) joking
did you forget the escargot... ???
you can waste all the food and money YOU wish
I would have just rinsed the cob and continued eating

Answer 10

Oh please! It was just a 'corn worm' as we used to call them. Learn a lesson: You need to properly clean your vegetables before you eat them. That is when you are supposed to find the worms and remove them, not before you are about to take a bite!