People consume insects in many parts of the world as a protein source. A large and increasingly demanded source of protein is livestock, which human societies increasingly desire as their incomes expand. In fact, global meat consumption has doubled on per capita basis in the developing world in the last 20 years. The United Nations
Today in our Insect Music series we flashback 31 years to the New Wave era, specifically to the first music video that was ever shown on MTV: The Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star.” It’s not the video that we remember having aired after the MTV Rocket-ship and Moonman this week in 1981, (specifically on
Super Grover is the superhero persona of Sesame Street’s Grover. Super Grover uses his superpowers to help others, though generally he ends up not being much help at all. In the 2010 season of Sesame Street, Super Grover received an upgrade and his own segment as Super Grover 2.0. Super Grover 2.0 uses his superpowers
Bell Environmental is a New Jersey-headquartered company so you may ask what took us so long to get to Bruce Springsteen as part of our Insect Music Friday blog series. Without any further wait, here’s “Wrecking Ball.” Why this one, of all of Bruce’s songs, you may ask? Because the lyrics include the line: “Now my
We and our children are fans and avid readers of Mo Willems’ pigeon series, especially the book “Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus,” (available on Amazon and Barnes and Noble) and turned into a clever video on YouTube. But pigeons are a nuisance bird for reasons other than wanting to drive public transportation.
It took us a few weeks, but we got to one of our favorite Rock-n-Roll pioneers, Bully Holly & the Crickets, (and a direct inspiration for the Beatles.) Enjoy and have a great weekend!
We’ve been writing a lot about bed bug humor (and even included a clever routine from a stand up comic in our first blog on this topic), but now we’re turning our attention to a different kind of bed bug comic: comic books! We were big comic book fans when we were young and enjoy all
The Fourth of July holiday week isn’t going to stop us from posting our Insect Music Friday blog. Today: The Cars, the best American New Wave band. (We’ll see if we get any dissenting comments from Blondie and Talking Head-lovers.) For our Insect Music Friday, we bring you the first video from Heartbeat City. If
We came across a new pest control product and were instantly reminded of the ending of the comedy classic Caddyshack, in which Bill Murray, as Carl the golf course groundskeeper, uses explosives to try to eliminate the gopher that bedeviled him the whole movie. Now see the Rodentator, a real(?) pest control product, in action!
In honor of this week’s blockbuster movie The Amazing Spider-Man, our Insect Music Series is expanding to include some “Arachnid Music” - Specifically, the Ramones’ cover of the Spider-Man cartoon theme song. Has there ever been a better song for a superhero TV show or movie? Prince’s Bat Dance doesn’t come close. Neither does that Nickelback Spider-Man song