Hybrid Librarian presents the 10 most gigantic animals that have ever roamed the Earth, classified by type.
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Tag: Insects
Man Claims To Have Tamed A Japanese Giant Wasp
The Japanese giant hornet is known as one of the world’s largest and most aggressive insects. It is two inches long with a quarter-inch stinger, can fly at speeds up to 25 mph, and is feared for its powerful, poisonous stings that claim at least 40 lives in Japan every summer. So when a Japanese man made an outlandish claim that he had actually tamed a hornet, no one really believed him.
But Twitter user Mikuru625’s has been trying to convince everyone that he actually has a pet giant hornet by posting photos of it. He said that he had captured the hornet with a butterfly net and held it with tweezers while he removed its sting and poison sacs. He then put a string around its thorax, so that the insect follows him wherever he goes. “He does bite occasionally but it doesn’t hurt,” the owner says.
Should We All Be Eating Insects?
AsapSCIENCE explores whether we should be eating insects as an efficient alternative to our current diet.
Enjoy!
Could these creepy crawlers be the future of food?
Should We Eat Bugs?
Don’t laugh. The way things are going, it could come to this.
Should we eat bugs?
What’s tasty, abundant and high in protein? Bugs! Although less common outside the tropics, entomophagy, the practice of eating bugs, was once extremely widespread throughout cultures. You may feel icky about munching on insects, but they feed about 2 billion people each day (Mmm, fried tarantulas). They also hold promise for food security and the environment. Emma Bryce makes a compelling case for dining on bugs.
What If Bees Went Extinct?
According to Albert Einstein, when honey bees become extinct, humans would follow within four years. He argues that honey bees play a key role in the pollination of plants which end up supplying food to humans and other animals. Without the plant bees therefore, the plants will not be able to multiply resulting in food shortage and an end to human race.
Where would we be without bees? As far as important species go, they are top of the list. They are critical pollinators: they pollinate 70 of the around 100 crop species that feed 90% of the world. Honey bees are responsible for $30 billion a year in crops.
That’s only the start. We may lose all the plants that bees pollinate, all of the animals that eat those plants and so on up the food chain. Which means a world without bees could struggle to sustain the global human population of 7 billion. Our supermarkets would have half the amount of fruit and vegetables.
It gets worse. We are losing bees at an alarming rate. Possible reasons include the loss of flower meadows, the crab-like varroa mite that feasts on their blood, climate change, and use of pesticides.
How close are we to losing our bees? Earth Unplugged’s Maddie Moate explains all.
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