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Kids Prefer Mealworms to Grasshoppers When Its Comes To Eating Bugs
Insects are a sustainable, climate-friendly food source. But what will it take for us to begin eating them? 188 Danish 11- and 12-year-old children have rolled and eaten their own mealworm and grasshopper fortified oatmeal balls as part of a University of Copenhagen research project. The project aims to explore what it will take to shift our eating habits in a more climate friendly direction. The experiment demonstrates that some insects have a greater yuck factor than others and that mealworms might be our best bet for an insect-protein rich dietary future.
Updated Dec 18, 2020 | 13:31 IST
Researchers have found two new species of fungi, Strongwellsea acerosa and Strongwellsea tigrinae, that turn flies into zombies. New fungi that turn flies into zombies | Image: Faculty of Science/University of Copenhagen
Scientists in Denmark have discovered two new species of deadly fungi that turn flies into zombies. The parasites devour from inside, bursting from the abdomen of their still-living prey. The adult flies continue to buzz around for days with massive holes in their bodies, after being infected by the fungi.
The research by the University of Copenhagen and the Natural History Museum of Denmark has been published in the Journal of Invertebrate Pathology.