While haggis, neeps and tatties typically represent the best of Scottish cooking, 2020 has other plans in a culinary clash of evolution, innovation and sustainability. In a new publication from Zero Waste Scotland, entomophagy (the practice of humans eating insects) could be the future, with the report suggesting that a change from cattle to critters could be lucrative and better for the environment. Dr... 

According to all possible and impossible researches, insect populations are decreasing and as annoying and disgusting as they are, they are important to our ecosystem, God did not create them for nothing but he certainly did not create them as food for us either. They are diminishing because of the abusive use of farming fertilizers, insecticides, etc. yet despite having their numbers lowering faster... 

Scientists are calling it “the insect apocalypse”, and it has extremely serious implications for the future of our planet. All over the globe, insect populations are plummeting dramatically. And since insects are at the very foundation of the global food chain, that is really bad news for all of us. In fact, one expert described what is happening to the global insect population as “hyper-alarming”.... 

Gryllus bimaculatus – the cricket species Japanese researchers believe we should be growing. Japan’s Tokushima University has successfully collected public donations for a contraption that will help automatically provide water for crickets, with the ambition of turning ordinary people into farmers of nutritious insects. “Let’s start a big movement from Japan where there is a tradition of... 

The good news is that modern technology may have finally helped find a new way to eliminate mosquitoes. The bad news is that it’s going to require more drones. No, robotic Predator and Reaper drones like what’s seen overseas aren’t going to be deployed to section of America to shoot down skeeters with microscopic missiles. Officials in Florida are looking towards using unmanned aerial vehicles... 

A small insect or a mosquito over your ear may now be much more than simply annoying. Those could easily be micro drones which now come in a swarm of bug-sized flying spies. ­In an effort to create a hard-to-detect surveillance drone that will operate with little or no direct human supervision in out of the way and adverse environments, researchers are mimicking nature. The University of Pennsylvania... 

The team takes several highly magnified images of the different aspects of the species and then combines the pictures into one final image. Scientists at the California Academy of Sciences have developed a project to capture three-dimensional (3D) images of every known ant species in the world. The team has been taking photographs of the ant species in museums around the world by using a technique... 

From an unusual method, the study concluded that stripes serve as the best insect repellent… The stripe pattern of three species of zebra was copied to categorically study the reflection of light. Hungarian and Swedish researchers conducted an unusual study that culminated in a good hypothesis about the function of zebra stripes. According to the team, the patterning would be an antidote against...