WATCH: Woman finds live dung beetle in son's cereal
A woman recently took to social media to share her experience of allegedly finding a dung beetle in a box of South African cereal.
There's nothing quite as bad as finding unexpected guests in your food, especially if you've already started digging in.
One mom recently took to TikTok to share her very own horror story of allegedly finding a live dung beetle in her son's cereal.
In the video, the TikToker, who goes by The Curvy Butterfly, detailed how she was making cereal for her son when she noticed a brown lump in the bowl.
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"I picked it up and put it on the spoon and walked, went away and asked my son to get ready again. [When I] came back and it was gone."
She started looking through the cereal for the brown lump and, to her shock, discovered what she claimed to have been a live dung beetle.
"So I looked, and I found it, and I said, 'Oh, this looks like a beetle'. Put it in a Ziploc bag. It started moving," she said in the video.
Since her son had eaten some of the cereal, she decided to phone the paediatrician to ensure that her son would be fine.
"If he hadn't thrown up, had diarrhoea or fever, then E. coli could be taken out of the equation, but he did have to be dewormed.”
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In the video, the concerned mom claims that the beetle had been living in the cereal since 15 August 2024.
"So, you can only imagine what was in that cereal."
*It is not yet clear if the beetle was in the box on the day it was purchased or exactly how it got into the cereal.
Watch the full video here:
@thecurvybutterfly Found DUNG BEETLE alive in my sons #bokomo #pronutro so if you have from this batch report it to #pioneerfoods customer service #foodsafety #fyp #SAMA28 ♬ original sound - The Curvy Butterfly • Fashion
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