Cockroaches are good food critics
At a time when we are facing a plague of cooking programmes, I was intrigued to see that cockroaches recommend good food sources to each other by communicating in chemicals, according to scientists.
The much-maligned insects appear to make a collective decision about the best food source. Who needs a good food guide when you can [...]
2009 - the year of the wasp
August 11, 2009 · Filed Under Uncategorized · Comment
Here we are in mid August and already my garden is becoming something of a no-go zone because of wasps. And this year’s vintage seem to be real alcoholics in that they buzz around and into wine and beer glasses as well as making every charred morsel from the BBQ a potentially painful [...]