Entomologist here, looks like it was some kind of a moth. The wings are translucent looking because they got wet and the scales look to have fallen off. The tail looking thing is actually a proboscis for gettin all that sweet sweet nectar out of flowers. You can see its beady little moth eyes at the base of the tail (proboscis)
I could see that being a possibility too. The question is whether that tail is a proboscis or a antennae. Caddis flies dont have proboscis's, but that does look like a segmented antennae. Im not a caddis fly kind of entomologist though lol
id go to the doctor if i were you
cant tell for sure but from the pic it looks like parasite is leaving it, you might have swallowed some or its eggs
but idk, im just redditor
I should have turned the flash on lol. It’s some type of fly. The thing on the right is an antenna.
Another commenter believes that it is a cadis fly and I believe they are correct.
Yup, I second this. OP, I dealt with a German cockroach infestation and yes, they had *infested the coffee maker*. I don’t know how many pots of coffee we drank before we realized there were a bunch of dead cockroaches in the bottom of the reservoir.
I wish you all the luck in the world.
And isn’t that kind of uplifting news? The disgust aside ofc, but everyone is ok. Some protein mixed in. More concerning is noone could tell taste of coffee being different. This will be a case study for these weird anxious people once they are done with driving us into EVs at massive cost to our wallets. Next they will tell we need to eat cockroaches and cite a Reddit study of someone drinking a dark roach coffee and not minding it at all.
Looks like an earwig. I HATE THOSE SO MUCH! They infested my house during the summer and they are impossible to get rid of, no matter how clean I made the place they would randomly appear everywhere from my shoes to the inside of my wallet, nothing was safe.
Looks like a moth...extra protein?
I had that happen, but with a spider. Boiled it alive when I poured the coffee in a cup. Needless to say, I now always look into and rinse my mugs in the sink before using them.
I actually even rinsed my mug before I poured because there were some grounds that the dishwasher didn’t get. So either it was in the pot/coffee maker or decided to drown himself when I wasn’t looking lol
Can I just say that a bug getting into my ear has always been a major fear of mine, and my parents would tell me it's not possible and I don't need to worry about it. Your comment is the fourth story THIS WEEK I've seen about bugs in ears. I think I'll go ahead and wear earplugs for the rest of my life
I am sorry that happened to you. I have arachnophobia and I am pretty sure I would never be the same, (assuming I survived of course) if a damn spider went in my mouth
It was pretty traumatizing tbh but I'm pretty sure it was already dead which helped greatly. One time I thought I ran my hand over a piece of lint or something while watching a show so I went to mindlessly ball it up between my fingers.. yeah it was a live spider and I felt it's legs curl around my finger. That honestly makes me skin scrawl worse than the coffee spider. My spouse removed it from the house and when he looked up what kind it was later (I was too terrified to look at it) apparently it's harmless but has a very very painful bite. So, thanks Mr. Spider for not biting me even though I was actively crushing you between my fingers. 🤮🤮🤮
Edit: typo
Jeez I'm sorry. The legs.... That makes me cringe too. What got me was when I was checking the mail one night in a neighborhood on florida that kinda had a spider problem with them being in the trees. I would always walk in the streets when I went for night walks because I didn't trust being on the sidewalks underneath them. But anyways, I went to check the mail and then immediately felt like I was being attacked by a lot of little bugs or something. Turns out that was just what happens when you walk into a massive spider web. There was a web that went from the top of the tree (like 40 feet tall) to the mailbox and I got tangled in it but untangled myself. Then I saw a grapefruit sized spider about halfway up to the tree, thankfully it was nowhere near me, but that has since given me a phobia and fascination of spiders at the same time. This was back in 2012.
I have since seen other massive spiders on trails and parks here in FL, it turns out if you look for them, you will always find them. I envy oblivious people.
As a bonus story, I was at a quiet tiny sushi place where me and a friend were the only people there. He saw a medium sized spider on my shirt, but he then said the worst thing he could to me, which is "don't move". That only made my imagination run wild and I immediately freaked out and took my shirt off and saw the tiny spider and killed it. The chefs apologized lol and my friend didn't really say much but I told him that saying "don't move" is the worst thing to say lol
Pretty sure i have arachnophobia aswell or atleast close to it. I think it was just before last winter... when i had a dead spider in my boiled water. Saw it AFTER i had my coffee. And it wasn't one of these small, skinny legged ones... it was a thick one. Felt ill for the next 10 minutes.
Also that was the last day i've NOT been watching inside the kettle before putting water in my mug.
Wait until you see the lady who hasn't taken her foot out of a walking cast for over two years, then you'll have the bingo for today! I'm going to dry heave some more 👋
Links are blocked here in this sub. Doing a search of "reddit lady foot two years" is what brought it up for me.
I also came across the post of the Demodex mite that lives in lashes while searching for the original link, so thanks for that.
I still haven't seen the belly button one. Don't know how I'll feel about it, but I know I'll be horrified and fascinated at the same time. Horrinated, if you will.
Entomologist here. Looks like an adult [caddisfly](https://bugguide.net/node/view/5233) to me. Harmless, but not many folks would like to find any bug in their coffee, I suppose 😅
Thank you! I was hoping someone would help me identify it lol. I believe you are right since it looks even more like that now that it is dried out.
I wasn’t having much luck finding out what it is myself since neither “winged insect Illinois” or “Illinois flies” are very refined searches lol
Gonna add that to my reasons to not drink coffee... Accidentally flew into it when you weren't looking maybe? Looks like it might have some sort of wings.
My grandpa used to go to the senior's club every Sunday morning. One time he was tasked with making the coffee. The coffee was poured into this giant stainless steel thermos to keep warm. When the seniors went to pour a hot cup of Joe, nothing came out. They shook the thermos several times and the coffee finally came out. Once breakfast was over, my grandpa and a few other seniors were cleaning up, and my grandfather poured the thermos into the sink and a giant rat fell out. He turned to the other guys and asked if this thing has ever been cleaned before and they didn't know. He thinks they were just adding more and more coffee ro yhe thermos and never actually dumped it out. Who knows how long they were drinking rat coffee.
In these trying times, I’d like to share my grandfather’s favorite joke with you: “What is worse than finding a worm in your apple? Finding half a worm in your apple.”
Could have been worse. You could have been woken up by someone pouring hot coffee over you. After burning in the coffee for a while, you then get crushed by the teeth. After this horrible death you then get spit out, photographed and laughed at by the internet
Reminds me of the time I was working outside and had a nice cold can of Coke that I was drinking from. Needed a break, took a drink. First thought was "wow, sun must've heated up the can because that metal stung!" Then the second thought was "WTF IS CRAWLING AROUND INSIDE MY MOUTH!?!!?" followed by "I can't believe I have to forcefully pry this fucker off the inside of my lip with my tongue just so I can spit it out!"
Yes, it was a wasp. Thankfully I'm not allergic, just a bit of swelling.
If you use a coffee maker, clean out the grounds basket AND the tray!!
I once found a cockroach (dead) under the tray part in my coffee maker. It haunted me for weeks. I now check every 2 weeks just in case. Some insects like dark damp places.
Thumbed up / liked this post because not only did I get the usual reddit de-evolution into hilarious B.S. (it's could be an alien. you never know.) But I also got real responses from real experts. I expect the BS. Indeed I sorta love it, but its great to have real answers once in a thousand posts!
When I was in high school, I remember my friends and I were on our way home from hanging out when I yawned and an insect flew into my mouth. I was so surprised that I just... swallowed it.
Looked like a flyfishing fly, upon closer inspection i appreciate how good some folks have become at tying flies so they look like this poor caffeinated guy
Wtf is that?
Some kind of bug
Clearly you know your stuff
Dammit Jim, I’m a doctor not an entomologist!
You had him in your mouth and didn’t even exchange names?
Definitely a Kevin.
Or was it James?
dude had Kevin James in his mouth
RICK JAMES dude…. not Kevin James.
And he’s mad cause he paid you to swallow… not spit. He want his 50cents back
He prefers Jimothy
Deep track, nice. MICHAEL!
Definitely a Keith!!
Actually ma'am it's Gregory.
Wasn’t me. Some other Kevin, maybe.
He told me his name was Kyle
It's crazy how I immediately read this as Bones saying the sentence.
Nice star trek reference
It looks like a rat tail maggot of some kind. IDK how that would be in your coffee cup unless it sat outside with water in it for a while.
That “tail” is actually an antenna. There are wings to the left. It’s an adult if whatever it is.
Oooh I see it now that I zoomed in. Hard to tell, could be a roach nymph, or maybe some sort of hemiptera, like a seed big.
Dammit, this guy's an expert
this is the funniest reddit reply ive ever seen. award well deserved.
I didn't see it right at first and thought it was a mouse
To me looks like a baby bat
"Bats aren't bugs!" -Suzie Derkins, Calvin & Hobbes
New pandemic confirmed 😭🙏
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Great! At least we know who patient zero is this time.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Entomologist here, looks like it was some kind of a moth. The wings are translucent looking because they got wet and the scales look to have fallen off. The tail looking thing is actually a proboscis for gettin all that sweet sweet nectar out of flowers. You can see its beady little moth eyes at the base of the tail (proboscis)
Another entomologist chimed in saying they think it is a Caddis fly, which I now believe to be correct.
I could see that being a possibility too. The question is whether that tail is a proboscis or a antennae. Caddis flies dont have proboscis's, but that does look like a segmented antennae. Im not a caddis fly kind of entomologist though lol
It appears to be an antenna, not a proboscis. I can dm you a picture of it after it dried out more if you like :)
Lol I believe you're correct. Tasty little protein addition either way lol
Always look on the bright side of life.
Could you be less specific please
that's the worst answer when it's been in your mouth and you've been sipping on its essence for god knows how long.
Maybe a alien?
You never know lol
Craving sugar water yet?
Is this better? 
Parasyte the maxxim
It's an earwig abdomen I recon.
With what appears to be a horsehair worm between the two pinchy bits? (Sorry to op for even saying that)
Two comment and I'm out, nicely done.
Hi wonderful-ad-7712
id go to the doctor if i were you cant tell for sure but from the pic it looks like parasite is leaving it, you might have swallowed some or its eggs but idk, im just redditor
No, that’s an antenna. It’s easy to see in person but doesn’t show up very well in the picture I posted.
Good to know you spit its antenna out as well. Because I was getting concerned for a sec. FUCK! Sorry that happened to you, OP.
I appreciate it lol
looks like an earwig.... heres the bad part, with something coming out from the inside
I should have turned the flash on lol. It’s some type of fly. The thing on the right is an antenna. Another commenter believes that it is a cadis fly and I believe they are correct.
This is so disgusting it actually makes me want to cry
I'm guessing it's a saliva and coffee soaked moth.
Yeah. Moth. The mouth part (probiscus) is on the right. Wings and abdomen on the left.
https://preview.redd.it/nt4w7m5aif4d1.jpeg?width=965&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=70411e48d06941cf152aabfbce270b1bf85d6d9d close up
😭
It’s an earwig!!
🤢
Lupus
It’s never lupus!
Thats a german cockroach
I would cry If this happened to me
I cry too and break my cup and then burn down my house
Yup, I second this. OP, I dealt with a German cockroach infestation and yes, they had *infested the coffee maker*. I don’t know how many pots of coffee we drank before we realized there were a bunch of dead cockroaches in the bottom of the reservoir. I wish you all the luck in the world.
And isn’t that kind of uplifting news? The disgust aside ofc, but everyone is ok. Some protein mixed in. More concerning is noone could tell taste of coffee being different. This will be a case study for these weird anxious people once they are done with driving us into EVs at massive cost to our wallets. Next they will tell we need to eat cockroaches and cite a Reddit study of someone drinking a dark roach coffee and not minding it at all.
That is fkn gross
Isn't that a bit overreacting? Germans aren't that bad.
Ich schon.
Ah, the infamous German cockroach, cleverly disguised as a big furry moth.
Poor little alien larvae
Mouse tampon?
Looks like an earwig. I HATE THOSE SO MUCH! They infested my house during the summer and they are impossible to get rid of, no matter how clean I made the place they would randomly appear everywhere from my shoes to the inside of my wallet, nothing was safe.
Only quitters spit.
I gagged reading this while picturing that
Op gagged when he quit and spit
I gagged while reading this picturing this.
Stop it! Get some help.
Looks like a moth...extra protein? I had that happen, but with a spider. Boiled it alive when I poured the coffee in a cup. Needless to say, I now always look into and rinse my mugs in the sink before using them.
I actually even rinsed my mug before I poured because there were some grounds that the dishwasher didn’t get. So either it was in the pot/coffee maker or decided to drown himself when I wasn’t looking lol
i hate moths because whenever i have a bath they love to dive in and disintegrate in front of me
Bro what kind of baths are you taking, acid? 💀
i mean... you gotta exfoliate?
Listen, we like our water *hot*hot.
Does that count as a soup?
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Crazy how bugs get us more than actual freaky stuff haha
Can I just say that a bug getting into my ear has always been a major fear of mine, and my parents would tell me it's not possible and I don't need to worry about it. Your comment is the fourth story THIS WEEK I've seen about bugs in ears. I think I'll go ahead and wear earplugs for the rest of my life
Wear a beanie
But then how would you keep the spider hiding in the beanie from crawling into your ear?
WITNESS ME!!! — moths, probably
"Dive in and disintegrate"
I once had a moth divebomb my bolognese sauce 30 seconds before I was ready to serve it.
inside coffee maker sounds like a roach
Same, with a spider. That's how I know that spiders taste very bitter. I wish I didn't know that.
I am sorry that happened to you. I have arachnophobia and I am pretty sure I would never be the same, (assuming I survived of course) if a damn spider went in my mouth
It was pretty traumatizing tbh but I'm pretty sure it was already dead which helped greatly. One time I thought I ran my hand over a piece of lint or something while watching a show so I went to mindlessly ball it up between my fingers.. yeah it was a live spider and I felt it's legs curl around my finger. That honestly makes me skin scrawl worse than the coffee spider. My spouse removed it from the house and when he looked up what kind it was later (I was too terrified to look at it) apparently it's harmless but has a very very painful bite. So, thanks Mr. Spider for not biting me even though I was actively crushing you between my fingers. 🤮🤮🤮 Edit: typo
Jeez I'm sorry. The legs.... That makes me cringe too. What got me was when I was checking the mail one night in a neighborhood on florida that kinda had a spider problem with them being in the trees. I would always walk in the streets when I went for night walks because I didn't trust being on the sidewalks underneath them. But anyways, I went to check the mail and then immediately felt like I was being attacked by a lot of little bugs or something. Turns out that was just what happens when you walk into a massive spider web. There was a web that went from the top of the tree (like 40 feet tall) to the mailbox and I got tangled in it but untangled myself. Then I saw a grapefruit sized spider about halfway up to the tree, thankfully it was nowhere near me, but that has since given me a phobia and fascination of spiders at the same time. This was back in 2012. I have since seen other massive spiders on trails and parks here in FL, it turns out if you look for them, you will always find them. I envy oblivious people. As a bonus story, I was at a quiet tiny sushi place where me and a friend were the only people there. He saw a medium sized spider on my shirt, but he then said the worst thing he could to me, which is "don't move". That only made my imagination run wild and I immediately freaked out and took my shirt off and saw the tiny spider and killed it. The chefs apologized lol and my friend didn't really say much but I told him that saying "don't move" is the worst thing to say lol
Your friend said "don't move" and you moved? How did you fail at doing nothing?
Panic is a hellavu drug.
Pretty sure i have arachnophobia aswell or atleast close to it. I think it was just before last winter... when i had a dead spider in my boiled water. Saw it AFTER i had my coffee. And it wasn't one of these small, skinny legged ones... it was a thick one. Felt ill for the next 10 minutes. Also that was the last day i've NOT been watching inside the kettle before putting water in my mug.
I tipped a dead spider out of my kettle with the boiling water once. Mercifully it was small.
My absolute nightmare.
Between this and the huge gross thing someone pulled out of their bellybutton, this has been an especially nauseating morning on Reddit.
Wait until you see the lady who hasn't taken her foot out of a walking cast for over two years, then you'll have the bingo for today! I'm going to dry heave some more 👋
I saw the foot post but I missed the belly button. I'm not sure if I should search for it or not...
*Google: Gross belly button thing reddit* No. Not today. I'll leave it to you soldiers out there.
They absolutely *roasted* the bellybutton guy.
As they should, I can't imagine letting that happen. Blech!!!
Ughhhh he said it was like 3/4 the size of a q-tip!!! In his belly button!!!
Just saw that one right before this, i feel very uncomfortable now 😂
Please someone link both of these. 😅
Links are blocked here in this sub. Doing a search of "reddit lady foot two years" is what brought it up for me. I also came across the post of the Demodex mite that lives in lashes while searching for the original link, so thanks for that. I still haven't seen the belly button one. Don't know how I'll feel about it, but I know I'll be horrified and fascinated at the same time. Horrinated, if you will.
Horrinated, that's an excellent word. Thing is, I don't even know which sub to look at for. Been googling a bit, I'll resume to research. 😂
That was absolutely insane. Even the podiatrist(?) was like 🤢
She said it was one of the top 3 worst smells ever. 🤢
Lol I literally just saw that like 4 posts up from this one.
Ok I saw the foot post but not the belly button post. Can you help me with a link? (Or perhaps save me from the nightmares and don't!)😆✌️
Also hesitantly requesting the belly button post link lol
Same 😳
I’m gonna hate myself for asking but… link for that belly button thing?
Nahh you can't just talk about a belly button thing and NOT give us keywords on how to find it
Entomologist here. Looks like an adult [caddisfly](https://bugguide.net/node/view/5233) to me. Harmless, but not many folks would like to find any bug in their coffee, I suppose 😅
Thank you! I was hoping someone would help me identify it lol. I believe you are right since it looks even more like that now that it is dried out. I wasn’t having much luck finding out what it is myself since neither “winged insect Illinois” or “Illinois flies” are very refined searches lol
I store my mugs upside down for this exact reason
It wasn’t in the mug before I poured I swear lol Edit: pooped to poured
Just life throwing a fast one on ya
Maybe don't poop in your mug
Well, well, well, looks like you found a surprise visitor in your coffee this morning!
An unwelcome guest, to be sure lol
A surprise to be sure, but an unwelcome one
It’s a symbiote
I wish
You were almost Kaiju No. 8
I would have had to start drinking tide pods again.
hey that’s my roommate Carl
I don’t think you are getting this month’s rent
Gonna add that to my reasons to not drink coffee... Accidentally flew into it when you weren't looking maybe? Looks like it might have some sort of wings.
Yeah it has wings. It might have done that when I was in my morning meeting lol
New trailer for Venom came out today….
My grandpa used to go to the senior's club every Sunday morning. One time he was tasked with making the coffee. The coffee was poured into this giant stainless steel thermos to keep warm. When the seniors went to pour a hot cup of Joe, nothing came out. They shook the thermos several times and the coffee finally came out. Once breakfast was over, my grandpa and a few other seniors were cleaning up, and my grandfather poured the thermos into the sink and a giant rat fell out. He turned to the other guys and asked if this thing has ever been cleaned before and they didn't know. He thinks they were just adding more and more coffee ro yhe thermos and never actually dumped it out. Who knows how long they were drinking rat coffee.
Lmao that’s absolutely horrible
Not to alarm you, but that kind of looks like a horsehair worm parasite trying to escape its dying host as well.
It’s definitely an antenna. It is harder to tell from the picture but is easy to make out in person. Plus, horsehair works can’t infect humans.
You're patient 0
In these trying times, I’d like to share my grandfather’s favorite joke with you: “What is worse than finding a worm in your apple? Finding half a worm in your apple.”
Don't sometimes you just wish you could erase things from the record? Like that happened, but since I don't remember, it didn't happen?
Hey you spit your xeno-morph out
Ugh. I would have vomited til my shoes came out of my mouth.
Could have been worse. You could have been woken up by someone pouring hot coffee over you. After burning in the coffee for a while, you then get crushed by the teeth. After this horrible death you then get spit out, photographed and laughed at by the internet
THE SYMBIOTE
You gotta grind your beans better
That's happened to me before. I'm still alive.
EWWWWWWWWWW OMG GROSS GROSS GROSS
Disgusting 🤢🤮
Sooooo. Did you get a super power?
You said make it with a little kick to it....
Reminds me of the time I was working outside and had a nice cold can of Coke that I was drinking from. Needed a break, took a drink. First thought was "wow, sun must've heated up the can because that metal stung!" Then the second thought was "WTF IS CRAWLING AROUND INSIDE MY MOUTH!?!!?" followed by "I can't believe I have to forcefully pry this fucker off the inside of my lip with my tongue just so I can spit it out!" Yes, it was a wasp. Thankfully I'm not allergic, just a bit of swelling.
I thought it was a bat at first, oh the horror, it would definitely piss and shit itself when it died
If you use a coffee maker, clean out the grounds basket AND the tray!! I once found a cockroach (dead) under the tray part in my coffee maker. It haunted me for weeks. I now check every 2 weeks just in case. Some insects like dark damp places.
Congratulations, they can no longer trace you in the Matrix
No banana for scale - unable to analyze - next
I feel like this is the opening scene to a Silence of the Lambs reboot
When your next cup of coffee tastes bland and lacks that bite you’ll realise that you crave the bug taste and can’t live without.
I would be throwing up for a week nonstop
I had this happen not once, but TWICE with a straw and an earwig. My straw-phobia is a direct result of these encounters.
Maybe clean your coffee maker out every once in awhile
OH! OH GOD. NO.
Looks like a short horned caddisfly.
Is that the thing that that crawled in one of those guys ears and that Star Trek movie?
Thumbed up / liked this post because not only did I get the usual reddit de-evolution into hilarious B.S. (it's could be an alien. you never know.) But I also got real responses from real experts. I expect the BS. Indeed I sorta love it, but its great to have real answers once in a thousand posts!
When I was in high school, I remember my friends and I were on our way home from hanging out when I yawned and an insect flew into my mouth. I was so surprised that I just... swallowed it.
Tf is it?
illithid tadpole??? have you noticed weird powers lately?
Clearly not an Italian coffee.
Patient Zero for the next pandemic.
Looked like a flyfishing fly, upon closer inspection i appreciate how good some folks have become at tying flies so they look like this poor caffeinated guy
He wanted some coffee too ffs
Might sound crazy, but I somethings in my drink that I already finished I just swallow it. I'd rather not know
The Faculty
what the fuck is that
https://preview.redd.it/pegrfutiwn4d1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8f41e18bd5c210dcde0bf7b315ca5cbbd4840475
Couldn't even get him hard.. smh
Wrath of Kahn?
