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Welcome mats bearing the legend “difficult” and “allusive” are the ones often placed by critics at the door of T. S. Eliot’s ...
We ride home with a bag of shrimp and two Bud Heavies in the valley between us. Do I know the word spleenful, he asks. Like a ...
It’s pretty rare, but just like us mammals, some flies actually give live birth. One of them is a parasitic fly species Ormia ochracea ( O. ochracea ). A new study published this week in the Annals of ...
One bird spectacle readily observable in Allegheny County right now comes in the form of 100 purple martins swirling above ...
But while cricket stirred my soul, computers quietly captured my mind. Even today, I find myself lost in the romantic poetry of the game. Cricket is a novel in motion — part Tolstoy in its depth, part ...
We asked readers to weigh in on what Independence Day means to them, and/or share memories of past celebrations. We’re never ...
The Dismal Swamp Trail, despite its uninspiring name, delivers some of the most inspiring views in the state. This 1.5-mile path includes a 70-foot observation tower that rewards climbers with a ...
‘We are intending to, at the end, have a value chain where you have the production, the harvesting, as well as the sales of edible insects,’ says Professor Abdullahi Ahmed Yusuf, Department of ...
"Symphonic Wings" seeks to erase barriers between scientists and the public as it advocates for helping to reverse the insect population's decline.
May 27, 2025 From ant scones to cricket granola, University of Delaware students explore insects as food A new course during the spring semester showed how bugs can be used as an environmentally ...
Insects need very little space, water, or food to grow, and they produce far fewer greenhouse gas emissions. For example, crickets need 12 times less feed than cattle to produce the same amount of ...
I ate crickets at the Farmed Insect Protein Conference 2025. It changed my mind on eating insects ...