Boxed pasta

In my Natural Science 172 class last week we were talking about bugs that get into food products. People mentioned the bugs that get into baking flour, which I knew about, but then someone brought up boxed pasta.  Apparently boxed pasta is really easy for bugs to get into.  My teacher said there are these little white things that float up to the top of the water when the pasta is boiling, he said that those are the sheddings of bugs! I just thought that was broken pasta. I forgot about this conversation until I boilded some spaghetti noodles toinght.  Guess where my pasta came from? Yep, a box. Guess what floated to the top of the water? Yep, white bug sheddings! So moral of the story: never buy boxed pasta!