I thought it was just rice, but the truth turned out to be much worse

As it turned out, these were bedbug eggs.

📌 What I learned:

Bedbug eggs are small, about 1 mm, white, oval, shiny, similar to rice grains. The female bedbug lays them in secluded places: in the seams of a mattress, behind baseboards, in cracks in furniture.

After 6-10 days, larvae hatch from them, which begin to feed on blood. Bedbugs rarely carry infections, but their bites cause itching, allergies, irritation and insomnia.