A very short intro to beekeeping

Bug girl has a post about all the different crops that are brought to you by insects. I figured I’d give you an inside scoop as to how crop pollination works, since I’ve dealt with bees before. One of the most common misconceptions about beekeeping is that they mostly produce honey. A lot of beekeepers [...]

Information on food additives

Bug girl has an excellent post on Cochineal. It’s amusing what happens when people find out that bugs are in their food. Anything I’d write would most likely be parroting her…I think she said it quite well. Bugs are in our food, whether by accident or by nature of the food organism’s biology. This particular [...]

This is cool…Caddisfly Jewlery

Going through my daily readings, I stumbled upon this article. As an experiment, Ben Stout introduced aquarium-style colored gravel into an area where the insects were building cases. Sure enough, the exotic material was incorporated into the walls of their underwater cocoons. If the caddis larva would put colored rocks to work in building their [...]