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#Raise Your Own Edible Bugs With This Decorative Kitchen Podthe U n. recently suggested (not for the first time) that we put a bit more crunchy insect protein into our diets.
Eating bugs could provide a sustainable source of snackage--they produce less greenhouse gas than cattle those four-legged methane-factories
Inhabitat Instead of eating the bugs yourself you can get a chicken and feed the bugs to the chicken (they like them I don't) then you can eat the chicken eggs
and if you're feeling a bit choppy you can eat the chicken! Black soldier flies produce pretty great larvae.
All better than eating bugs. Plain and simple. Insect consumption will not get going in America until the process
Likewise people do not want to prepare a bowl of bugs but with a little education and social conditioning they may slowly warm to the idea of processed insect'meat'as in small blocks of'meat'that don't actually look anything like bugs
(I for one am rooting for you) then stop showing people pictures of bugs or even cleverly prepared bugs.
It is an idiot bug. Literally every insectivorous animal in the northeast--songbirds carnivorous birds (hawks owls) opossums foxes cats shrews snakes spiders and even dogs--will gorge on cicadas.
Idiot bugs...hmmm makes you wonder. Today's magic is tomorrow's technology. uptil I looked at the paycheck
or killing cockroaches if you follow the logic: Embyonic Stemcells are people. Do not try
Micro robots versus the bugs! Heck you could even use them for pollination!..If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth man would only have four years left to live...
That report suggested the leaves stunned the bloodsucking bugs as they traveled from hiding places to their sleeping hosts during the night;
in the morning the bug-covered leaves were removed and burned (dense infestations could allegedly amass over two pounds of the buggy leaves in a single room).
and microscopic images suggested that fine curved hairs called trichomes on the bottom of the leaves snagged the bugs'feet.
Now the California-Kentucky team has zoomed in even closer to reveal that the leaves'sharp trichomes actually pierce the bugs'feet like meat hooks immobilizing them.
and lead researcher of the new study You see this big muscular bug vigorously struggling
which usually captured the bugs within seconds (they used males rather than a mix of both sexes to avoid making baby bed bugs).
A low-vacuum scanning electron microscope (LV-SEM) allowed the researchers to examine the bugs while they were trapped still on the leaves.
The images revealed that the trichosomes sometimes hooked the bugs'feet like Velcro but more often went right through.
Some bugs were able to rip themselves free by breaking the trichome or rending their own flesh but they were recaptured usually.
and would move the same way as a bug walks through. To do this Loudon and her team used dental impression putty to create negative molds from the surface of the real bean leaves then filled these molds with epoxies of varying strengths and stiffnesses.
And unlike the natural trichomes which are hollow the synthetic versions were meant solid which they moved differently as the bugs walked through.
or grandmother said to me as a child in a tone of voice that made no difference it suggested bugs might actually bite
which are very adaptable is also killing other bugs and animals then the statement âÂ#Âoe...
#The Chemistry of Kibble Visit Popularscience. com Thursday March 28 at noon EST for a live chat with Mary Roach.
Second if this also an apartment complex I trees also come with wildlife and bugs which is not good for people or the structure of the building.
Many of the contaminants lurking on leafy greens are noroviruses--the bugs that cause what most of us call the stomach flu--deposited by food handlers according to a story in the New york times
By the way there are trillions of different critters bugs bacteria virus yeast and molds in the environment and yes birds bugs and animals dodo on our food too.
a cramped roach-ridden studio apartment in Manhattan's West Village will run you $36000 a year;
There are some scientifically proven ways to slow bugs'ability to adapt to GMO toxins. Planting a mix of GMO
If the common cold can repel Martian occupiers in The War of the Worlds why not hurl even more virulent weapon ized bugs at the enemy?
I caught the plastics bug. Biddle later got a Ph d. in polymer science and engineering at Case Western Reserve University.
The researchers enlisted the help of schoolchildren to do a precise accounting of bug and woodpecker activity in the area said Christopher Whelan an avian ecologist with the Illinois Natural history Survey UIC adjunct assistant professor of biology
or into holes made by other bugs. The students tracked the fate of each bug that had been in the tree.
and thus the food source available every bug and its fate were accounted for. This was looking at woodpecker foraging at a fine tree-by-tree scale said Flower.
The mutually beneficial interaction between laurels and ants which also involves tiny sap-sucking bugs called scale insects that make the honeydew is a well-known example of
or the tiny bugs that live in house dust have sneezing itching eyes and a running nose that often significantly impacts their productivity at school or work.
The lab's new research has given us compounds that serve as repellents making possible safe alternatives to DEET for a variety of applications including control of mosquitoes flies and possibly lice bed bugs ants cockroaches grain pests and agricultural pests.
#X-ray science taps bug biology to design better materials and reduce pollutionbug spray citronella candles mosquito netting--most people will do anything they can to stay away from insects during the warmer months.
Most people know the caddisfly as the artificial bug on fly fishing lures. But few know that these real caddiesflies spin an adhesive silk underwater to build nets to capture food and build protective shelter.
This is the unique adaption that has not been discovered in cockroaches termites ants or other insects.
Most were active in the bug's cuticle and block or slow an insecticide from reaching the nerve cells where it can kill.
It takes about 2500 bugs to produce one ounce of cochineal extract used in ice creams yogurts candy beverages and other foods.
Since this is a growing issue with cockroaches bedbugs fleas potato beetles and other crop pests the discovery could lead to benefits for the pest-control industry and farming.
which include the well-known bug MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus). New Staph strains are emerging in people who have close contact with livestock animals
These other measures included cockroach traps powder insecticide and chemical methods such as wave devices. Only 1%of women used insect repellents during pregnancy. 10%of pregnant women used outdoor insecticides such as in gardens or vegetable plots and yards with plants:
In an effort to defend itself the host plant releases green-leaf volatiles to attract various species of Geocoris predatory bugs that eat insect eggs and tiny larvae.
The resulting changes in the volatile profile alerts Geocoris bugs to the presence of M. sexta caterpillars on the plant their potential prey.
Just like Geocoris bugs adult female M. sexta moths are able to detect the changes in the green volatile profile emitted by Sacred Datura plants that have been damaged by M. sexta caterpillars.
This alerts the moths to the fact that Geocoris bugs are likely to predate eggs
Bug and weed killers, solvents may increase risk of Parkinsons diseasea large analysis of more than 100 studies from around the world shows that exposure to pesticides
or bug and weed killers and solvents is associated likely with a higher risk of developing Parkinson's disease.
For the analysis researchers reviewed 104 studies that looked at exposure to weed fungus rodent or bug killers and solvents and the risk of developing Parkinson's disease.
The research found that exposure to bug or weed killers and solvents increased the risk of developing Parkinson's disease by 33 to 80 percent.
#Top 10 new species of 2012an amazing glow-in-the-dark cockroach a harp-shaped carnivorous sponge
Lightning Roaches? Lucihormetica luckae Country: Ecuadorglow-in-the-dark cockroach: Luminescence among terrestrial animals is rather rare and best known among several groups of beetles--fireflies
and certain click beetles in particular--as well as cave-inhabiting fungus gnats. Since the first discovery of a luminescent cockroach in 1999 more than a dozen species have (pardon the pun) come to light.
All are rare and interestingly so far found only in remote areas far from light pollution.
This cockroach is known from a single specimen collected 70 years ago from an area heavily impacted by the eruption of the Tungurahua volcano.
#Invasive kudzu bugs may pose greater threat than previously thoughtthe invasive kudzu bug has the potential to be a major agricultural pest causing significant damage to economically important soybean crops.
Kudzu bugs (Megacopta cribraria) are native to Asia and were detected first in the U s. in Georgia in 2009.
The bugs have an interesting life cycle which has been thought to be a limiting factor on far they can spread.
which we'll call Generation A. The immature bugs of Generation A normally feed on kudzu plants until they reach adulthood
Generation B kudzu bugs can feed on soybean crops during both their immature and adult life stages causing significant crop damage.
Because the immature Generation A kudzu bugs have only been seen to feed on kudzu researchers thought that the pest would not be able to migrate to northern and western parts of the United states where kudzu doesn't grow.
Under controlled conditions in a greenhouse laboratory researchers at NC State found that immature Generation A kudzu bugs were limited not to feeding on kudzu--they were feed able to exclusively on soybeans reach maturity
and the field observations indicate that kudzu bugs are potentially capable of spreading into any part of the U s. where soybeans are grown.
It also means that both annual generations of kudzu bugs could attack soybean crops in areas where the bug is established already
The bug-encrusted greenery was burned the next morning to exterminate the insects. Through painstaking detective work the scientists discovered that the creatures are trapped within seconds of stepping on a leaf their legs impaled by microscopic hooked hairs known botanically as trichomes.
These effects promote the growth of good bugs while keeping bad bugs at bay. A University of Colorado Cancer Center review published in this month's issue of the journal Current Opinion in Gastroenterology shows that resistant starch also helps the body resist colorectal cancer through mechanisms including killing pre-cancerous cells
We want a robust inflammatory response which is part of our natural programming to defend us against a bug.
The researchers compared cleaned antennae of American cockroaches with antennae that were prevented experimentally from being cleaned. They found that grooming cleaned microscopic pores on the antennae that serve as conduits through
Cockroaches clean their antennae by using forelegs to place the antennae in their mouths; they then methodically clean every segment of the antenna from base to tip.
and nonvolatile chemicals accumulated on the ungroomed antennae of cockroaches but most surprising was the accumulation of a great deal of cuticular hydrocarbons--fatty candlewax-like substances secreted by the roaches to protect them against water loss.
It is intuitive that insects remove foreign substances from their antennae but it's not necessarily intuitive that they groom to remove their'own'substances Schal says.
The researchers also tested groomed and ungroomed cockroach antennae to gauge how well roaches picked up the scent of a known sex pheromone compound as well as other odorants.
The researchers then put carpenter ants houseflies and German cockroaches to many of the same tests. Although they groom a bit differently than cockroaches--flies
and ants seem to rub their legs over their antennae to remove particulates with ants then ingesting the material off their legs--the tests showed that these insects also accumulated more cuticular hydrocarbons
or dust that settles on a cockroach's antennae for instance should be ingested by the roach rather quickly due to constant grooming.
It was as it turns out bugs says Robert Kennedy a remote sensing specialist at Boston University who consulted with U s. Forest Service experts to confirm his observations.
#Bugs reveal the richness of species on Earthan international team of researchers has carried out a survey of the biological diversity in a tropical rainforest.
and crustaceans commonly referred to in the vernacular as bugs. Although arthropods make up the majority of all living animal species little is known about their true numbers.
and that the vast majority of them live in tropical rainforests it makes perfect sense that you can carry out a census of all the bugs in the rainforest to find an answer to the overriding question.
and identified 130000 bugs representing over 6000 different species. A large portion of all species discovered in the forest were found in a rather small area--a fortuitous development for the researchers.
whether fires that burn in areas impacted by mountain pine beetles are more ecologically severe than in those not attacked by the native bug.
And our bugs seem to have some enzymes that are even better than those in the cow rumen.
Now scientists report in ACS'Journal of Natural Products that they've discovered certain stink bug pheromone components
Scientists could potentially use the substances to lure brown marmorated stink bugs to a specific spot
When used out in field tests the two components attracted adult and juvenile brown marmorated stink bugs.
Because these compounds didn't have to be pure the researchers could use relatively inexpensive mixtures to trap this stink bug.
This rather changes our view of the biology of this nasty little bug says Paul Wigley of Institute for Infection and Global Health at the University of Liverpool an author on the study.
#Get insects to bug off this summersummer means an increase in bug and insect activity.
Tips from Dr. Layden on how to avoid bugs this summer are: â#¢Dusk and dawn are the prime hours for insectsâ#¢Wear long sleeves and long pants to cover skinâ#¢Wear light colors
After Kasson successfully isolated the fungus in pure culture from infected plants a DNA analysis revealed that the fungus--Colletotrichum fioriniae--is also widely known as an insect pathogen that kills an invasive bug that infests
Citrus greening first enters the tree via a tiny bug the Asian citrus psyllid which sucks on leaf sap
& Tropical Medicine today launch Bug Off--the first ever Insect repellent Awareness Day to highlight the issue.
However the scientists behind Bug Off have carried out a review of published studies and conclude that there is insufficient evidence to show that DEET is unsafe.
The Bug Off campaign also involves an educational outreach programme including school visits and a poster competition
#More male bugs in a warmer world? Temperature influences gender of offspring in bugswhether an insect will have a male
#Homemade stink bug traps squash store-bought models, researchers finda Virginia Tech team of researchers has proven that homemade inexpensive stink bug traps crafted from simple
household items outshine pricier models designed to kill the invasive annoying bugs. This discovery comes
and put a light over the pan to attract the bugs in a dark room.
The trap eliminated 14 times more stink bugs than store-bought traps that cost up to $50 the study found.
and Tom Kuhar an entomology professor and Virginia Cooperative Extension specialist enlisted the help of citizen scientists--homeowners who were annoyed by the infestation of stink bugs in their houses--to evaluate different types of traps for ridding homes
of bugs. The study was conducted in 16 houses over two years. Currently there are no in-home insecticides labeled for use against brown marmorated stink bugs
The bug is now found in 41 states. Still the solution could give some reprieve to homeowners who find thousands of these cilantro-smelling bugs in their homes.
The real devastation comes in the form of damage to farmers said Kuhar. Stink bugs feed as nymphs and adults on the fruit and pods of plants which maximizes their chances to render a crop unmarketable.
These bugs have been documented to feed on many of our important agricultural crops including apples peaches grapes soybean peppers tomatoes corn and cotton.
Treatment of the insects in crops is costly because the insecticides required to control it are broad spectrum toxicants that are highly disruptive to integrated pest management programs.
Benign bug beats salmonella; tomato eaters winscientists from the U s. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have identified a benign bacterium that shows promise in blocking Salmonella from colonizing raw tomatoes.
and cockroaches said Ludek Zurek K-State professor of microbial ecology and lead author on the published study.
Cockroaches primarily German cockroaches have become a common pest in confined swine operations. Zurek and his colleagues collected house flies and cockroaches from food animal production locations including swine
and poultry farms as well as wastewater treatment facilities that collect waste from multiple sources including hospitals.
Cockroaches and house flies are highly mobile and they are attracted to residential areas he said. They are attracted to our food and drinks.
#Stink bug traps may increase damage to tomato fruitsthe invasive brown marmorated stink bug (Halyomorpha halys) is an important pest of fruits and vegetables.
Both groups experienced nearly the same amount of stink bugs on the tomato plants themselves but the the abundance of stink bugs on the tomato fruits was marginally greater in the gardens with traps
and the fruits sustained significantly more injury than tomato fruits grown in gardens without traps.
Furthermore tomato fruits on plants near the traps housed more stink bugs than tomato fruits on plants that were away from the traps.
-and-kill stink bug trap near a plant may actually result in greater abundance of stink bugs on the fruit the researchers wrote.
After the fireit is the first time that a study compares different responses of a set of animal organisms to fire (snails spiders beetles ants grasshoppers bugs birds and reptiles.
#Nineteen new speedy praying mantis species discovered that hide and play dead to avoid capturea scientist has discovered 19 new species of praying mantis from Central and South america.
The new species of bark mantises were discovered in tropical forests and also found among existing museum collections.
Dr. Gavin Svenson curator of invertebrate zoology at The Cleveland Museum of Natural history described the new species
This group the Neotropical bark mantises are incredibly fast runners that live on the trunks and branches of trees said Svenson of The Cleveland Museum of Natural history.
This violates the common perception of praying mantises being slow and methodical hunters. Like most praying mantises they are highly camouflage.
However this group is flattened in appearance and is very difficult to locate because of their adept mimicry of bark moss and lichen.
As highly visual predators the bark mantis species appear to be active hunters that pursue prey as opposed to ambush hunters that wait for prey to come close.
Also like a similar bark mantis group from Australia (Ciulfina) this Neotropical group does not appear to exhibit cannibalism
which is an often misunderstood characteristic exhibited by some praying mantis species. The research brings to light a previously unknown diversity of bark mantises.
Based on this study we can predict that mantis groups with similar habitat specialization in Africa Asia
This is exciting because enormous potential exists for advancing our understanding of praying mantis diversity just by looking within our existing museum collections and conducting a few field expeditions.
The conservation status of some of the new mantises found in museum collections is known not
Svenson's research is focused on the evolutionary patterns of relationship distribution and complex features of praying mantises.
and other features to create a new and accurate classification system for praying mantises that reflects true evolutionary relationships.
#Success of new bug-fighting approach may vary from field to fielda new technique to fight crop insect pests may affect different insect populations differently researchers report.
Controlling the western corn rootworm costs growers more than $1 billion a year in the U s. Current methods for keeping the bug in check--crop rotation
(which involves feeding it to the bugs) influenced enzyme activity in the rootworm gut. They also recorded how long the beetles survived on soybean leaves after ingesting RNAI.
#Characterization of stink bug saliva proteins opens door to controlling pestsbrown marmorated stink bugs cause millions of dollars in crop losses across the United states because of the damage their saliva does to plant tissues.
Until now essentially nothing was known about the composition of stink bug saliva which is surprising given the importance of these insects as pests
By identifying the major protein components of saliva it now may be possible to target the specific factors in saliva that are essential for their feeding and therefore design new approaches for controlling stink bugs.
According to Felton stink bugs produce two types of saliva that are required for successful feeding. Watery saliva helps stink bugs to digest their food.
Sheath saliva surrounds stink bugs'mouthparts and hardens to prevent spillage of sap during feeding.
Unlike a chewing insect which causes damage by removing plant tissue stink bugs pierce plant tissue and suck nutrients from the plant said Michelle Peiffer research support assistant.
During this process stink bugs also deposit saliva onto the plant. The interaction between this saliva and the plant is
and Peiffer first collected adult bugs from homes and fields in central Pennsylvania and maintained them in their laboratory.
After two days of stink bug feeding they removed the tomatoes from the cages and used forceps to extract the hardened sheaths from the surfaces of the tomatoes.
and to analyze the proteins should be generally applicable for any species of stink bug.
They then fed the caterpillars to two common beneficial predatory insects--insidious flower bugs (Orius insidiosus)
and big-eyed bugs (Geocoris punctipes)--for two generations and compared them to another group of predators that consumed caterpillars fed on non-Bt plants.
#New study may aid rearing of stink bugs for biological controlmany people think of stink bugs as pests especially as the brown marmorated stink bugs spreads throughout the U s
. However certain stink bugs are beneficial such as Podisus nigrispinus (Dallas) a predatory stink bug that is considered an important biological control agent for various insect pests of cotton soybean tomato
Now a new study appearing in Annals of the Entomological Society of America called Effect of Egg Rearing Temperature and Storage Time on the Biological Characteristics of the Predatory Stink Bug Podisus
And the bugs are no longer there, those beautiful things have gone, he said. The canal's water where he fished
Today, the boy who once chased bugs under Beijing â¢s streetlamps is innovating Chinese environmentalism by giving people and businesses
Solar-powered bug killerwhat do you get when you combine two light bulbs, a bucket of water, and a solar panel?
According to Agrisolar, a lot of dead bugs. The company is capturing the sun's energy to kill nocturnal insects that feast on crops.
Within a foot of the bulb, the dizzy bugs drop, falling to their watery deaths inside a bucket.
Research suggests solar panels themselves can beckon bugs to their doom, but Agrisolar relies on wavelengths between 361 and 368 nanometers.
a bug's life Farmigo: a social network for fresh, cheap food Weed killer causes new cancer fears;
Super bug bacteria in meat and poultry, study saysif you grab chicken or some other meat from the grocery store,
you have a one in four chance of grabbing one that is tainted with a super bug.
The researchers suggested that the super bug likely made its way into the food chain because farmers cram animals into a packed farm
and small amounts (just tens of grams per hectare) are needed to be effective--making them an environmentally-friendly alternative to traditional pesticides for trapping bugs.
Their plant-derived compounds were quite effective at trapping moths in the field--attracting on average 130 male bugs per trap,
The scientists observed that tiny hooks on the leaves effectively immobilize the bugs. You might be wondering why bed bugs-the subject the famous childhood idiom sleep tight
TV spots starring Roscoe the bed bug sniffing dog, mattress encasement ads on the subway, commercials with people freezing bugs,
and steaming the bugs. Bug sprays won't work. The pests, which have been a nettlesome problem throughout antiquity,
have mutated now to be resistant to insecticides, and their bite is just as bad as ever. It turns out that the bean leaf solution is as good as the best of those methods.
It's possible to replicate the effect with synthetics that can be placed within the bugs'path around beds, doors, suitcases,
Bedbug genome uncovers pesticide resistance Beyond bedbugs-lay your head to rest in the greenest hotel Watch robots climb trees,  helicopter  in and sniff bugs
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