Insects
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Why We Should Eat Crickets. And Other Bug Ideas
As the human population expands, we are going to have to find better ways to feed ourselves without further decimating the environment.Photograph by Koldunova Anna / Shutterstock Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . In his new book, The Butterfly Effect: Insects and the Making of the Modern World, Edward […] -
How Swarming Insects Act Like Fluids
Reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine’s Abstractions blog. Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Starlings take to the sky in swirling vortices; ants teem like rivers. “They stretch, they move around, but they retain cohesion in a way you’d expect from a fluid moving,” said Nicholas Ouellette, a physicist at Stanford University. That’s why […] -
We Need Insects More Than They Need Us
Inside the world of plastic-eating worms, dung-rolling beetles, and agricultural ants.. -
Manhattan’s God of Insects
Lawrence Forcella reminds us why we loved bugs as kids. -
If Bugs Are Sentient, Should We Eat Them?
The ethics of eating insects.
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The Caterpillar Watcher
Charles Bonnet discovered insect trails but became famous for his hallucinations.
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The Beetle That Eavesdrops on an Ant’s Secret Language
Before noon in the Soconusco region of southern Chiapas, down by the border where Mexico meets Guatemala, the lush, green terrain is rife with bodies in motion. It is an area abutting the Pacific, a vast collection of plantations, most of them growing coffee. Hsun-Yi Hsieh, a doctoral candidate at the University of Michigan, has […]