Insects and Spiders
Slip Slidding Away 2: Slime Of The Snails
The insects appear to be rising up against us by sabotaging the roadways! First the mayflies here and now snails sliming the Autobahn. Drive carefully or you may get bugged too!
Posted By: Alex - Thu Jun 30, 2016 -
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Category: Insects and Spiders, Transportation
Slip Slidding Away
Havana, Illinois has a bug problem. Not bed bugs or cockroaches, mayflies. Their bridge is covered in them and by covered I mean up to six inches deep. The resulting bug goo all over the bridge has caused a number of accidents, cars and motorcycles. A certain kind of water bug grows wings and swarms as mayflies before laying eggs. I am thinking there will be far fewer of the water bugs this season because so many got squished on the bridge before laying eggs.
Posted By: Alex - Tue Jun 28, 2016 -
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Category: Highways, Roads, Streets and Traffic, Insects and Spiders
Small But Mighty
Watch this little bee pull a long nail out of brick. Pretty impressive, I doubt I could have removed it with a claw hammer and pliers!
Posted By: Alex - Fri Apr 29, 2016 -
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Category: Insects and Spiders, Natural Wonders
The Spider In A Clock
My latest about.com article, in which I tell the story of one of the very few spiders that (to my knowledge) has ever become famous.
Posted By: Alex - Wed Mar 09, 2016 -
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Category: Insects and Spiders
Cricket Pasta
Their recipe: "Whole eggs are added to a mixture of seven percent insect flour to 93 percent organic spelt wheat flour, producing a brownish pasta that is shaped into radiatori, fusilli, spaghetti and penne."
They note that the cricket pasta has a lot of protein in it, so it can replace meat for vegetarians. But can you actually call yourself a vegetarian if you're eating insects? What are the official rules about that?
via CTV News
Posted By: Alex - Mon Feb 29, 2016 -
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Category: Food, Insects and Spiders
Follies of the Madmen #262
Posted By: Paul - Sat Oct 17, 2015 -
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Category: Annoying Things, Business, Advertising, Products, Death, Insects and Spiders, 1960s, Australia
Insect Aircraft
This 1906 article is the lone reference I can find on the internet to this craft, and I suspect it never existed except on paper.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Oct 08, 2015 -
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Category: Insects and Spiders, Inventions, Air Travel and Airlines, 1900s, Europe
Tarantula on a plane
The crew of a Delta Airlines flight from Baltimore to Atlanta decided that everyone had to switch to a new plane when they learned that a baboon tarantula was loose on board. The tarantula had somehow escaped from its cargo shipment container.The tarantula was later found. It had never made its way into the passenger compartment. But still, a good decision to switch planes. I can imagine passengers would have freaked out if they had been surprised by a baboon tarantula crawling down the aisle. [11alive.com]
Check out the video below to see a baboon tarantula in action.
Posted By: Alex - Fri Sep 25, 2015 -
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Category: Insects and Spiders, Air Travel and Airlines
SPIDERWOMAN
Mom of the year saw a spider on her shoulder so she jumped out of her moving car (yes she was driving) with her 9 year old son in the back seat. The boy climbed over the seat and tried to get the vehicle stopped. Unfortunately he hit the gas by mistake and rammed a school bus.
Posted By: Alex - Mon Sep 21, 2015 -
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Category: Accidents, Goofs and Screw-ups, Insects and Spiders, Can’t Possibly Be True
Insect Art
If you've seen an insect in a movie, there's a good chance it was a prop made by insect artist Graham Owen. He specializes in the "design and fabrication of intricate life-size insect replicas" that are frequently used in movies and TV shows. His most famous insect might be the fly that tormented Walter White in an episode of Breaking Bad.A recent article about him offers more details about his art and career. And the article included this piece of info, which was new to me:
Posted By: Alex - Fri Sep 04, 2015 -
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Category: Art, Insects and Spiders, Movies
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