Tag: Insects - Page 5
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Detailed Illustrations of Mutated Insects Challenge the Science Of Nuclear Power
A Swiss science artist's beautiful but disturbing paintings of mutated insects reveal a different side to the 'official' story about nuclear power.
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How Honeybees Clean House (Video)
Honeybees are known for their fascinating social structures. Here's some incredible footage of one colony cleaning their hive after a rainstorm.
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The Week in Animal News: Rhinos Take a Helicopter Ride, Man Saves Snail Species, and More
This week includes black rhinos taking a helicopter ride, a same-sex penguin pair to be split up, and why we should eat bugs.
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More on Raising and Eating Insects for Low-Impact Meat (Video)
A witty entomophagy (bug eating) expert makes the case for insects as low-carbon livestock.
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The Week in Animal News: Javan Rhino Officially Extinct, Hawk With Nail Through its Head, and More (Slideshow)
This week, we received the sobering news that the Javan Rhino is officially extinct: The last of its species was killed by poachers for its horn.
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The Week in Animal News: Javan Rhino Officially Extinct, Hawk With Nail Through its Head, and More
This week we saw the sad end of Javan rhinos, a comeback for humpback whales, a hawk surviving a nail gun attack, and more.
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Venus Fly Trap-Like Robots Eat Bugs and Could Use Them for Energy
New robot prototypes mimic the Venus fly trap's ability to catch insects; preexisting technology could let them digest their prey to generate electricity.
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Edible Insect Food Truck Serves Prehispanic Bug-Based Cuisine (Video)
Think Americans won't eat bugs? Think again. One San Francisco food truck is pioneering bug-based pre-hispanic cuisine.
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High-Living Spiders Make Skyscraper "Like a Haunted House"
They're among nature's most skillful builders, capable of crafting elaborate webs with ease, so perhaps it should come as no surprise that spiders seem to appreciate our grandest structures as well. For folks employed at the John
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The Week in Animal News: Man Kills Entire Pelican Colony, Sharks at Golf Course, and More (Slideshow)
The arrival of thousands of pelicans could annoy just about anyone, but few resort to a mass killing to deal with the "problem." That's what one Minnesota farmer did this week, and he now faces fines of $15,000 and six months in
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The Week in Animal News: Surfers Save Shark, Skinned Alive for Fake Uggs, and More (Slideshow)
It's been a good week for sharks -- a baby great white was rescued by Venice beach surfers, the world's largest shark sanctuary was declared, and faux shark fin soup may be catching on.
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Architects to Redesign Beehive for Urban Bees
From Omlet's trendy Beehaus urban hive, to more traditional alternatives like top-bar and Warré hives, every now and then we see alternatives to the conventional beehives used by most professionals
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The Week in Animal News: Melting Zombie Caterpillars, Self-Cloning Jellyfish, and More (Slideshow)
Scientists have made some startling discoveries in the animal world this week -- from a virus that causes caterpillars to turn into melting zombies to a lonely jellyfish that has produced hundreds of clones of itself.
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Scientists Discover Gene Behind Melting Zombie Caterpillars
Watch out for zonked-out, virus-infected caterpillars melting from above: scientists have discovered a single gene in a caterpillar virus that dramatically alters the molting behaviour of the gypsy moth caterpillar, literally
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Wolf Spiders Ate All Our Chinese Stink Bugs
The web of life is such a wonder. Following the first US landing, in Allentown PA, of a successful breeding population of Chinese Stink Bugs, US Mid-Atlantic states were swarming with the damn
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Insect Snacks Get Safety Tests in European Union
Last week we took a poll of how many of you TreeHugger readers would eat insects if given the option, and for those of you who have, what you thought of them. The majority of you said sure, you'd try them at least once
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Extreme Composting: Watch Black Soldier Grubs Devour Burger in 5 Hours (Video)
Yesterday I posted a video on how to build a DIY grub composter, and I have written before about a commercially available grub composter that turns waste into animal feed in hours. But little did I know that there is a whole
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Would You Ever Eat Insects? (Survey) [Updated]
Photo: Wikipedia, CC "When they're fresh, their exoskeletons don't get stuck in your teeth." Reading this article about eating bugs as a greener substitute to animal meat in the Atlantic almost made me swear off food for good. Intellectually, I know
