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Hunting for Wild Insects & Crabs! In this video, we venture deep into nature to find dung beetles on trees and catch crabs in the water, preparing them for a unique and delicious grilled insect meal!
Some dung beetles are native to California, but many have been imported to help reduce damage from cattle farming. KPBS sci-tech reporter Thomas Fudge spoke with an entomologist about their role ...
Known for spending much of its life underground, the little-known American burying beetle could hold the key to developing ...
“Reducing hay waste and spreading/drying areas around finished bales is key to reducing stable fly numbers,” she says. “In ...
The Antiquities Authority determined the stone to be a Canaanite scarab from the Middle Bronze Age. Canaanites were an ancient people that lived throughout the Levant, with strong ties to Egypt. In ...
The Denver Mountain Parks Foundation is hosting its first fundraiser devoted to picking up bison poop.
The practice of using symbols of the revered beetles originated in Egypt. Ancient Egyptians associated dung beetles rolling balls of dung with their Sun god rolling the “Sun disk” across the ...
According to our first guest today, the secret to maintaining clean water and sustainable pastures lies right under our feet ...
Scarabs are small, decorated objects that originated in ancient Egypt. They’re typically shaped like dung beetles, which ancient Egyptians considered a sacred symbol of new life, per the IAA.
Misunderstood and often feared, insects play a crucial role in nature – something that 31-year-old Wendy Zhang hopes to ...