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Laurent Veyet's tasting menu is not for the faint-hearted, but may point to the future of feeding a booming world population - there is a prawn salad with yellow mealworm, crunchy insects on a bed of vegetables and chocolate-coated grasshoppers. "It's the ideal dish for first-timers," the Parisian chef said, preparing a serving of pasta made with mealworm flour, sweet potato and sauteed insect larvae. The European Food Safety Agency (EFSA) in January deemed the mealworm fit for human consumption and in May approved its sale on the market.

The insecticide Bti kills target organisms like mosquitoes and blackflies, but new research shows it may also have negative effects on non-target species like frogs.

Shrews and moles had evolved the ability to store much more oxygen in their muscles in a protein called myoglobin. we can actually use the genetic, the sequences to tell us about the lifestyle. it's just a sequence of one protein that we are just using that is really incredibly important for this lifestyle, that actually tells us something that we couldn't figure out having all these fossils. so now having this incredible set of genes from all these different species, and making a thorough analysis, we really could figure it out. it's the availability of food or the insect larvae that live in ...

Species, and making a thorough analysis, we really could figure it out. it's the availability of food or the insect larvae that live in beds of rivers and streams that drove water shrews into the water. their record dive time is 2a seconds and this research has revealed how these tiny predators' bodies became engineered for this high—speed aquatic hunting. victoria gill, bbc news. very impressive little animals, aren't they?— very impressive little animals, aren't they? very impressive little animals, aren'tthe ? ., , , aren't they? there you go, yes. time now for some — aren't they? the...

Important for this lifestyle, that actually tells us something that we couldn't figure out having all these fossils. so now having this incredible set of genes from all these different species, and making a thorough analysis, we really could figure it out. it's the availability of food or the insect larvae that live in beds of rivers and streams that drove water shrews into the water. their record dive time is 2a seconds and this research has revealed how these tiny predators' bodies became engineered for this high—speed aquatic hunting. victoria gill, bbc news. this is outside source, live ...