Insects and Spiders
In-home lice removal
This company has found an odd, but apparently profitable, niche: "personalized and discreet head lice removal services" in the comfort of your own home.
Posted By: Alex - Mon May 18, 2015 -
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Category: Insects and Spiders, Jobs and Occupations
The Entopod
Perhaps you weren't eating bugs because it wasn't easy enough to prepare them. Well, now there's the Entopod. Designed by Edinburgh student Courtney Yule, the Entopod is a "starter kit" for eating bugs. It includes a grinder for making insect flour, detachable containers for heating the insecto-food in the oven, and more! She hopes it will encourage people to experiment with "entomophagy." More info at BBC News.
Posted By: Alex - Thu May 14, 2015 -
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Category: Food, Insects and Spiders
Gene Vincent’s FLEA BRAIN
"If she wasn't good-looking, she'd be better off dead."
Posted By: Paul - Mon Feb 23, 2015 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Insects and Spiders, Music, 1950s, Brain Damage
The Fate of Fleas, 1894
via Jennifer Wallis
Posted By: Alex - Thu Nov 06, 2014 -
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Category: Insects and Spiders, Nineteenth Century
Waitress There’s A Cockroach In My Salad
When a customer in a Chinese restaurant complained about a cockroach in his salad the waitress showed him it was safe to eat by eating it. Delightful!
Posted By: Alex - Wed Jul 16, 2014 -
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Category: Insects and Spiders, Restaurants
Doomsday for Pests
Spray that DDT everywhere!
Aren't you a little sad for all those cartoon bugs?
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jul 12, 2014 -
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Category: Disasters, Insects and Spiders, Nature, 1940s
Chirps Cricket Chips
Available now for pre-order. They're chips made of cricket flour. I'd be willing to try them because from what I've heard crickets don't taste bad at all. And if they don't look anything like crickets, all the better! Though I have a hard time imagining these will ever go mainstream.
Posted By: Alex - Thu Jul 10, 2014 -
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Category: Food, Insects and Spiders
Cockroach Farming
According to the South China Morning Post: "Yuan places honeydews, apples and rice bran on shelves at each end of the room, where the insects swarm and feast. On the living room table is a bag of glucose for the baby cockroaches, or nymphs, which resemble little red beans."
She sells the roaches to a local pharmaceutical company.
Posted By: Alex - Thu Jun 12, 2014 -
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Category: Insects and Spiders, Jobs and Occupations
Sara Mapelli, the Bee Queen
For more info, you can check out her website. The video of her "bee dance" goes on for quite a while, but at around minute seven she stops dancing and (still wearing her shirt of bees) joins a tea party already in progress.
Posted By: Alex - Thu May 08, 2014 -
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Category: Insects and Spiders
Mite
MITE from Walter Volbers on Vimeo.
Posted By: Paul - Fri May 02, 2014 -
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Category: Insects and Spiders, Cartoons
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