insects

  • Starbucks to stop putting insects in their coffee

    The coffee-making giant Starbucks has announced that will no longer be using cochineal extract to produce a red tint in its beverages. The extract is created from crushing beetles and then processing the released juices. Starbucks has said that it will start to use a red dye extracted from...
  • The “Beyonce” fly named after the pop star

    Seems like 2011 is shaping up to be a very big year of pop star Beyonce. Not only did the R’n’B singer give birth to her first child she also had a new breed of horse fly named after her. The Beyonce horse fly was discovered in in 1981...
  • Nature’s solution to your ant problem [ant death spiral]

    Circular milling is a strange phenomenon wherein army ants follow each other around in circles again and again until they become exhausted and die – en masse. From the Ant Room: This is one of my favorite things about ants — the ant death spiral. Actually, it’s a circular...