Insect

AFP - Researchers have found a new way that global warming is bad for the planet: more hungry bugs.

Rising temperatures will stimulate insects' appetites -- and make some prone to reproducing more quickly -- spelling danger for key staples like wheat, corn and rice which feed billions of people, researchers said Thursday.

EU countries voted on April 27 for a near-total ban on insecticides blamed for killing off bee populations, in what campaigners called a "beacon of hope" for the winged insects.

An international group of scientists has discovered fossilized remains of an eye from 530 million years, the Independent newspaper reported.

Swallow deeply, pinch the nose and repeat the mantra: "Tastes like beef, tastes likes beef." Then bite into the burger of rice, chopped vegetables, spices and mealworm larvae.

The first human insect products will be available for sale in Swiss supermarkets next week, AFP reported.

Those who wish will taste burgers and meatballs of flour worms with rice, vegetables and spices, they will be sold in the Coop stores.

A bug over half a meter (1.6 feet) long discovered in southern China has been declared the world’s longest insect, state media said Thursday.

Catarina Rydin and Kristina Bolinder from the Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences at Stockholm University accidentally discovered that pollination in the gymnosperm Ephedra foeminea is linked with the full moon. They made this discovery after a fruitless study of the plants of Greece and Croatia. It hit them that the plants may have been waiting for moonlight to bloom.

Officials from the directorate of nature conservation and national parks are holding training sessions for locals in mosques to warn them against the smuggling of rare insects and plants by tourists in the eastern province of Van.