Insects in Tea Bags
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Who knew it? Commercial tea leaves contain traces of anthropological DNA. Environmental DNA, or eDNA, is a method which can be used to identify traces of hundreds of different species, without ever seeing the creatures themselves. Studies of old dry tea bags reveals that they are often full of dead insects...er up to 1,000!. I often infuse home grown herbs in boiling water which kills off most things anyway. I prefer coffee to tea anyway lol.
Tea anyone? 
I drink organic white M, so hope the insects are not into that
Saying that the experts do say insects are nutritious 
telmel White tea.What is that? If it's got milk in it's probably got gad flies as well lol.
MelissaLee1963 Ah i thought you meant the Gif M 
White tea is young tea that is healthier than green tea , without the mites hopefully
telmel Ripping up baby plants lol. Yes as allotmenteer I should have known that. I once tried growing a couple of Camellia Sinesisis plants but they never ever made it to the the white hairy stage. I did manage tobacco though which ironically makes a great spray for deterring unwanted insects.
in my tea.
I saw this earlier - when I was having a cup of tea!! It made me think and I couldn't finish the cup... so I moved on to a bacardi & coke - I hope there are no bugs in that!
I also thought how clever that you can get 1,000 bugs in such a small bag....
Next weeks price increase justified by rebranding as protein tea, but will they put vegans off. When I put old used Tea on the garden I do notice lots of maggot’s appear, always assumed the eggs had been laid post my cuppa.
nissan3 I'll ask Dougal. Goodness they do. Brownie points to the one who finds em in their cuppa then.
nissan3 really omg I never knew that wow I'm never gonna look at an insect the same way again!
Well, I’m sure it’s not done anyone much harm. Tea drinking has been going on for centuries, and you only hear of the benefits…
I'm not really surprised by this to be honest. There will be insects on the tea leaves when they are picked. Plus eating insects now is supposed to be trendy. It hasn't put me off drinking tea.
I love a good cuppa and if I found a insect in my tea bag I would most likely run for the hills, and then later on sue them! 
I love a cup of tea but this is terrible if I find a bug I’m never drinking tea again.But it’s likely
MelissaLee1963 my parents used to tell me that apparently you swallow 7-10 spiders a year when you are asleep!
AaBbCcDdEeFu Especially when you're snoring on yer back with yer mouth open lol.
AaBbCcDdEeFu To put your mind at rest the “you eat spiders in your sleep” is a myth. Apparently just your breathing is enough to scare them away from you
TheChimp I spat something out in the night once .Wasn't a spider. Could've been an ant or a dead fly.
I went into Tesco today and brought 80 bag PG Tips. I am completely put off drinking tea bags because of this "report".
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