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...
Tagged: insects
Bug splatter test points to decline of nature in Britain
NEWS AND OPINION: Insect pollinators and other indicators of biodiversity in Britain have declined dramatically as indicated by a citizen science survey on car...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Damien Hirst’s artwork exhibit that kills flies criticised by PETA and removed
A Hundred Years is a well-known artwork by Damien Hirst which, as it happens, was loved by Francis Bacon, another very well-known artist. It...
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...
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:...
50 kg millipede roamed in equatorial Great Britain 326 million years ago
The experts have told us that giant millipedes as long as a car weighing 50 kg roamed across Great Britain 326 million years ago,...
‘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...
