Carmine or E120 is commonly produced from ground up cochineal beetles By RYAN PROSSER PUBLISHED: 02:01 EST, 13 November 2023 It’s probably one of the last things you think about when you open a tasty treat or put on some lipstick. Eating insects is something we usually get entertainment from seeing people do on I’m a Celebrity. But […]
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Beetles in your cake? How this secret ingredient means you could be eating insects EVERYDAY – from Mr Kipling slices to yoghurt (and it’s even in your favourite lipstick!)
Beetles, fungus and old age: The days of LA’s palm trees are numbered
They are the sultry, swaying backdrop to countless films, posters and music videos, an effective way to announce: this is Los Angeles. Palm trees greet you outside the LAX airport, they line Hollywood Boulevard, stand guard over the Pacific and crisscross neighbourhoods poor and rich, a botanical army of stems and fronds which symbolise […]
Beijing Holds Anti-US War Games In South China Sea
Beijing are preparing to host anti-US war games in the South China Sea following an international tribunal ruling against China’s territorial claims in the waters. China are to close off access to the east coast part of the area in order to host military exercises from Tuesday to Thursday this week. Hongkongfp.com reports: The area of sea […]
Researchers Harvest Beetle’s Wing Energy to Power the Mind Control Chip in Its Brain
Eric Limer GEEKOSYSTEM Sunday, September 4, 2011 As you may or may not have been aware, DARPA and other organizations have been trying to make small aircraft that are modeled on insects. The problem they ran into, however, was that these little aircraft needed something to power their wings, and the weight of a […]