insects

The Week in Animal News: Melting Zombie Caterpillars, Self-Cloning Jellyfish, and More (Slideshow)

September 30, 2011

Image: TreeHugger

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

September 23, 2011

Photos: Michael Grove

Watch out for zonked-out, virus-infected caterpillars melting from above: scientists have discovered a single gene in a caterpillar virus that which dramatically alters the molting behaviour of the gypsy moth caterpillar, literal…

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Wolf Spiders Ate All Our Chinese Stink Bugs

September 22, 2011

“Do you like my hat ?” Image credit:Flickr,graftedno1

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 th…

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Sexual Cannibalism! Female Praying Mantis Devours Her Partner

September 19, 2011

This amazing series of photos shows a female praying mantis consuming her partner during the sexual act.

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Sexual Cannibalism! Female Praying Mantis Devours Her Partner

September 19, 2011

This amazing series of photos shows a female praying mantis consuming her partner during the sexual act.

This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

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Insect Snacks Get Safety Tests in European Union

August 17, 2011

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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 on…

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Extreme Composting: Watch Black Soldier Grubs Devour Burger in 5 Hours (Video)

August 11, 2011

Image credit: MrStummel

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 p…

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Would You Ever Eat Insects? (Survey) [Updated]

August 10, 2011

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 …

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Scientists Breed Spermless Mosquitoes In Effort to End Malaria

August 10, 2011

Photo by Leszek.Leszczynski via Flickr CC

In an effort to slow the spread of malaria, scientists are trying to go to the source — not just by stopping mosquitoes, but stopping how mosquitoes reproduce. Scientists have bred a spermless male mosquito …

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How to Build a DIY Black Soldier Fly Grub Composter (Video)

August 10, 2011

Image credit: BlackSoldierFly

It made it into this infographic on which composting method is best for you, but it’s fair to say that grub composting—or the practice of disposing of organic waste by feeding it to black soldier fly larvae—i…

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