I used to buy and eat organic brussel sprouts from Trader Joe's. Then one day, for some reason, I decided to take a closer look, and found a little green worm crawling about. After removing it, I found another, and another, until I lost both the count and my appetite.

I read that it's normal for brussel sprouts to have these kinds of worms in them, so I must have eaten lots and lots of them. Shrugs, but I can't stand the sight of the worms, so I have never bought brussel sprouts, anywhere, ever since.

I still eat them at restaurants. But only if they're fried or grilled, because that decreases the chances that I'll see a worm.

Unfortunately thanks to this article I'll probably avoid dried figs now because I can't disassociate the visuals.

Raspberry would often have insects (including what I guess are stinky bug larvae), salads, persimmons, grapes, abricots, plums, chestnuts to name a few fruits that often carry either worms in the fruit or over.

grapes often have whole web orbs inside them with a spider inside the orb.

You mean the spider is chilling inside of the grape? Why would the spider do that, wouldn’t that make catching bugs harder?

there's a web inside the bunch, in the space between the grapes. not in the grape itself.

Not exactly free riders. As other comments have mentioned, the figs pollinate via the wasps. You are meant to eat ze bugs, and be happy.

I once found a caterpillar in a (non-organic) ear of corn from Walmart