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Bug Under Camera – Stop Motion Insect Movie
Amazing stop motion film from 1912 with insects.
Bug Under Microscope
A local scientist has been stopping by the Bug Studio to pick up various insects to photograph with a Nikon camera that includes a auto-montage microscope set-up. The results have been amazing and I want to share some of the photographs. One can really see the amazing architecture and color […]
Six Legged Meat
At the London restaurant Archipelago, diners can order the $11 Baby Bee Brulee: a creamy custard topped with a crunchy little bee. In New York, the Mexican restaurant Toloache offers $11 chapulines tacos: two tacos stuffed with Oaxacan-style dried grasshoppers. Could beetles, dragonfly larvae and water bug caviar be the […]
R.I.P. Uncle Milton – purveyor of dangerous toys
R.I.P. Uncle Milton – purveyor of dangerous toys Would you buy venomous biting ants for your kids? My parents did and millions of others did as well. How could a product that stung and bit you become so popular? Learn more about this amazing ant entrepreneur who sadly passed away […]
Maggots (not) for breakfast
Last week my wife said, “it would be great if I could eat breakfast without maggots on the table” (referring to my insect breeding box). Although she had a point, she was wrong to call them maggots because they are actually beetle larva. Maggots are fly larva and most beetle […]
Ant & Tree Vs. Elephant
A new study finds elephants might be afraid of ants and unveils a little more of amazing symbiotic story of the ant and Acacia tree. Ants in your pants? That’s nothing compared with ants up your snout. And that’s what elephants in the African savanna must contend with when trying […]