What is this?

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  1. Oneyone

    Oneyone New Member

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    > I pulled a thing out of my strawberry that looked like a tiny red arrow with a tail. The tail was fairly thin and attached to this red arrow shaped ?. I set it on a paper towel and began to eat my lunch. The end of the tail began to move up and around into a loop. I couldn't believe my eyes as it continued to loop around several times and tighten down into a tiny spiral. What was it?
     
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    The photo shows a much larger head. The point on the thing that I had was about the size of the tip of a toothpick. There were no hairs on it that were visible to the naked eye. I am not sure how much magnification was used in the photo, but this was much thinner and the end was much smaller.
     

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