Pretty Chinese woman eats massive wriggling grub. I feel sick.
TikTok is becoming known for videos of both Chinese men and women preparing and eating the kind of colourful food that they like. It is a trend and a popular one. I think that...
Category: Insects
Can a common house spider in the UK kill a person?
The title looks a bit odd because most people consider a common house spider in the UK as being benign. Some people think that they are quite cute and certainly not dangerous. However, a...
The giant bee that sells for almost $10,000 (dead)
This is a very rare, critically endangered, bee species found in Indonesia which is enormous and because of its rarity and size dead specimens can be bought on eBay for upwards of US$10,000. It...
Maggots can efficiently do what antibiotics sometimes can’t
You may know that maggots are very efficient at cleaning up wounds and repairing them as the feed on dead tissue. There’s been a slight resurgence in their use in NHS hospitals in the...
Bees enjoy playing by rolling balls
A research study published in the journal Animal Behaviour found that bees are not mindless robots but are probably sentient beings who like to play games, specifically roll balls for no apparent reason other...
Sydney’s record rainfall has lured funnel web spiders into homes
They don’t know whether the current deluge in Sydney, Australia is a result of global warming, but they do know that a 20-minute downpour last Thursday pushed Sydney’s rainfall beyond that recorded in any...
There are 2.5 million ants for every human on the planet
Are ants the most successful creature on the planet? It looks like they might be because the experts have worked out how many ants there are on the planet and the number is humongous...
Cyber-roaches are coming but is this human creation ethical?
Scientist-engineers have created solar-powered cyborg-type cockroaches implanted with electronics which enables people to control their movements. It sounds a bit like Robocop but with cockroaches rather than people. Perhaps people will be next and...
Mosquitoes have clever neurological wiring to detect humans
I’m told that mosquitoes initially detect humans by the carbon dioxide emitted from their mouths. When you blow a waft of carbon dioxide over mosquitoes in a container, they go wild and start buzzing...
Death’s-head hawkmoths fly over the Alps
In another astonishing revelation by scientists as to the abilities of animal species, Martin Wikelski from the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behaviour in south-western Germany, has revealed that some species of Death’s-head hawkmoths...
Morgan Freeman does his bit for bee conservation
In July 2014, Morgan Freeman started to become a beekeeper and subsequently into bee conservation due to their decline. The video on YouTube below provides information about his start in beekeeping. The video starts...
Do flies feel pain? Yes, but in what way?
Do you assume, as I did, that flies do not feel pain, that you can kill them mercilessly and chuck their carcasses out of the window when they come into your home? Are you...
Look again at “injurious” weeds as pollinators are attracted to them
In the UK there is a rather strange statute called the Weeds Act 1959. It lists the injurious weeds of the UK which include: Common ragwort – Senecio jacobaea Broad-leaved dock – Rumex obtusifolius...
‘Alien worms’ working together are fungus gnat larvae
There is a grisly video on the Internet described as: “Bizarre ‘alien worms’ forms wriggling mass in Thailand”. They are, in fact, fungus gnat larvae joined together working as a team; quite impressive actually...
Ants eat toenail clippings
The weather is warm, my back garden is inviting so I decided to cut my toenails on my back lawn. In any case it is brighter outside so I can see more clearly. All-in-all...
