Experts keep saying we’ll all have to start eating bugs as the world’s population grows. F off. Or so says, Paul Joseph Watson, who swears up and down: I’m not eating bugs!
Picture a gourmet meal in the future. How many maggots can you swallow? That’s right, scientists who study bugs are thinking harder about how to turn them into good food. So now they are dangling new specialties like maggot sausage and insect ice cream. More from Computing Forever.
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Although we call our time the Age of Mammals, we should call it the Age of Insects, because there are way more of them than there are of us. But we like to think we’re in charge because we’re bigger. Fact is, insects and other arthropods weren’t always so small. About 315 million years ago, during the Carboniferous Period, they were not only abundant but enormous. PBS Eons host Kallie Moore tells us their story.
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Scientists have figured out a way to actually control a live cockroach. This sort of “brain tapping” into an autonomous animal has triggered a huge ethical debate, leading D News to ask: Are we going too far?
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Have you ever considered having caterpillars or termites for dinner? Insects may be repulsive to the average Westerner but the squishy insides of the critter’s crunchy exoskeleton are rich in proteins, and also provide several other health benefits for humans.
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Cicadas have developed an amazing strategy for growth, survival, reproduction, and overcoming predation by…doing nothing. They do nothing for years (except sip at the juice excreted from root structures) before emerging in huge, simultaneous swarms.
The swarm is so huge that predators can’t consume even a fraction of it, but so rare that predator populations can’t sustain themselves between emergence events. Clever little things! More from Hank Green at the SciShow.
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The lowly bedbug is making a huge comeback, its ranks swelled by worldwide bans on DDT and similar pesticides, as well as the uptick in global travel. MinuteEarth outlines the difficult quest to sleep tight and don’t let the bedbugs bite.
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