As you stir the pasta you realize

[Anonymous]

Depends on the bug.

Something small, I'd scoop and proceed. A big old bug, I'd toss.

[Anonymous]

Scoop, and never speak of it. We should stop talking about this now.

[Anonymous]

I made lasagna with no boil pasta noodles. When I put the last layer of pasta I noticed something moving. There were several tiny bugs (around 4 or 5) on the pasta. I was going to toss the whole thing but my husband said to finish it and he would eat it because the bugs would be killed by the heat. I finished and he ate the lasagna and had leftovers throughout the week. I couldn't bring myself to eat it. He grew up poor and can never waste food. He also worked in high school and college in food joints. If no one told me until after I ate it I would have been fine but I just couldn't take a bite without gagging.

[Anonymous]

Leave it in. Then whoever finds it later during dinner, wins!

[Anonymous]

OMG, I can't believe PPs saying they would throw the pasta away. You all realize this is why kids have allergies these days, right? A tiny bug is not going to hurt anyone, even if you didn't scoop it out (though I think that's what everyone would do).

[Anonymous]

I can't believe anyone would throw the whole thing over one big. I fished two small ones out of my wine tonight sitting outside watching the kids play. Bugs happen. Waste not, want not.

Rich people problems, tossing food away for a tiny bug.

[Anonymous]

The water is boiling, most likely it was a bug that doesn't transmit germs (flies do), so scoop, continue boil, rinse.