It was probably just the warm cycle, though it might have been hot since she was washing camping clothes. But as @YamatoTwinkie pointed out, dishwashers typically run hotter than clothes washers.
This article implies that, not only can some insects survive inside a dishwasher on a steady basis, it actually takes a special effort to kill them.
I think that’s really because of the dishwasher drain & air gap provides an entry point into the dishwasher - not that the insects are readily surviving inside of it during a cycle. The listed solution for “getting rid of fruit flies”, for example, is to attract them into the dishwasher and then run it.
I learned as a young boy that spraying ants with a mixture of water and detergent (ie. soapy water) kills them really quick, whereas plain water of the same mild temperature obviously did nothing.
Ah! Thanks!
Rule 34! Hell, you might even get a prompt asking what kind of dishwasher you’d like shown in the background.
Thank goodness. I’m having flashbacks to the “Jared has aides” episode of South Park.
That’s gotta screw with your “Suggested For You!” results for a while.
I’d think a three-foor anything would interfere with the functionality of a dishwasher, presuming you could successfully stuff the critter in there in the 1st place.