nishtdayngesheft and others; the debate is not whether bugs of any kind are ossur.Of course,they are. Also, no one denies that vegetables and fruits should be checked. Of course, you check whatever you buy. What we are discussing is the limits of this checking and whether anything that is not seen by the naked eye can be declared as ossur. Washing with soap is,to my mind, ridiculous. Using a magnifying glass of any kind is not what halacha requires. (see Aruch Hashulchan who absolutely refuses to include a microscope as a checking tool). There are living creatures on anything. I submit that to go to the lenghts described by some posters (smashing the strawberries to see little things scurrying, declare that white dots on raspberries are bugs…)is not required. Anyone who has ever seen worms on vegetables knows that they are quite visible. Tiny dots on raspberries that cannot be identified as living things are not what is ossur.
The posters are allowed to do whatever they want for themselves but don’t pretend that it is normative halacha.