insects

This is the name given to the habit of eating or feeding on insects. The insects are consumed mainly in tropical countries, but also in China, Japan and Mexico. What's more, many are considered authentic delicacies. In the 1992 "Malawi Cookbook" some recipes based on these arthropods are named "traditional delicacies", including grilled palm weevil larvae as well as roasted termites.

Insects are an important and easily accessible source of nutritious and protein-rich foods found in forests, according to a new study presented by FAO at the International Conference on Forests for Food and Nutrition Security held these days in Rome. Insects are estimated to be part of the traditional diets of at least 2 billion people. In addition, the collection and breeding of insects can generate jobs and income also at the industrial level.

The first to observe it methodically and describe it in an illustrated book entitled 'The Caterpillar, Wonderful Transformation and Strange Flower Feeding' (1679) was the German naturalist and pioneer entomologist María Sibylla Merian, whom Google pays tribute to today on the 366th anniversary of his birth.

According to research by scientists at Oxford and Lund Universities, the fact that many males provide paternal care to their offspring even when they are not of the same blood could have an evolutionary explanation. The work indicates that instead of doing it out of "confusion", the males are much more tolerant and cunning than was supposed and they decide their care based on how likely it is that a female will put the horns on them.

Ants have a complex social system that requires communication between members of the colony. In addition to chemical signals, these animals also emit sounds to warn their companions of danger. Until now, these sounds had only been heard in adult ants, but a team of researchers from the Center for Ecology and Hydrology in Wallingford (United Kingdom), has just discovered that pupae, a state prior to the mature phase, also emit their own voices alarm.

Dorylus gribodoi is the scientific name for one of the 60 species of African ants. Also known as siafu ants (their name in Swahili), warrior ants, legionary ants or marabunta, these insects gather in colonies of up to 20 million individuals that march en masse in search of food and devastate everything in their path . They are capable of killing and eating animals the size of a small zebra.

We live with the more than 14,000 species of ants that entomologists have identified, but we know very little about them. We show you closely ... very closely.

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