Is my butternut squash plotting world domination?

[Wallabyone]

I've had a squash in the fruit bowl for over a week. Yesterday I noticed a patch on it, about the size of penny. It has small bubbles on it, like eggs-orange caviar almost 😷 I pushed it without thinking and some burst and squirted stuff out at me. What is it?! Are they tiny butternut squash babies waiting to hatch and multiply?

How weird. I’ve got a squash in my fridge that I bought 3 weeks ago. It’s still fine.

Spider nest? 🤢 😆

Photo please.

My friend (who has an allotment) says all squashes are always trying to take over the world. I would be a little afraid.

Incidentally, it might technically be a fruit, but seems an odd choice for a fruit bowl. Isn't snacking on a grape more pleasurable?

I had a fight with a butternut squash last week the squash won , it broke my knife, they are taking over the world !

It's just a mouldy thing that would be kept in check if it was constrained to the fridge.

I CBA thinking about whether technically a squash is fruit or veg, but you use it like veg so it would seem sensible to keep it in the fridge instead of the fruitbowl like a weirdo. And then it would last ages until you got round to doing something with it.

In my defence, it would take up most of a shelf in my fridge 🙈 It is disgusting - and I've kept them in the fruit bowl keeping the pineapple company before with no evidence of squash world domination.

Here is the beast:

"I had a fight with a butternut squash last week the squash won , it broke my knife, they are taking over the world ! "

Prick butternut with fork. Microwave for 4 or 5 minutes. Slice softened butternut with knife into cubes. Then roast or cook as normal.

Those are eggs. Throw it out before they hatch!

Burn it now! That does not look right or natural.

They definitely look like eggs of some kind. You really should get it out of your house asap.

Really? I thought it was just me 😷 Should I burn it? Rub it with garlic?

I saw your photo and thought, "Oooo, that looks sore"

Poor Raymond. Kill it now. It's the humane thing to do.

I ruined my best saucepan steaming butternut squash. It is thr beginning of the end for me.

You have no choice OP, you're going to have to burn the house down.

Jesus that’s disturbing. It looks like fish eggs, is your squash an aquatic variety?

I was going to say it's probably just a patch of mould, but no... that's weird. Eggs of some wee beast. Burn it.

@RiddleyW I know-it looks like salmon eggs. Perhaps there's a small salmon flapping about inside with the seeds. I agree, but it's still in the fruit bowl. I almost want to see what happens (but obviously don't want squash spiders/salmon taking over my kitchen).

Is there anything else in the fruit bowl?!

Some spider eggs can be orange
🤢

Is there anything else in the fruit bowl

No. The thing breeding in the butternut squash, has eaten it all. 😱

Torch the fucker.

It looks wrong, but seriously what is the point on butternut squash anyway?

Throw it away before it hatches

Now you have squash herpies.