Wasps give Japanese rice crackers a special sting
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A Japanese fan club for wasps has added the insects to rice crackers, saying the result adds a waspish scent to the traditional fare.
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A Japanese man died after a bite from his pet hamster caused anaphylactic shock, Mainichi Shimbun reports. Ther nameless forty-something succumbed after repeated bites from the animal sensitised his immune
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Cyprian honeybees don&#39;t smother their enemies with kindness&mdash;they just smother them to death, research now reveals.  This novel strategy has never been seen before in insects, &quot;and probably in all animal species,&quot; apidologist Gerard Arnold at the National Center of Scientific Research in France, told LiveScience.  Cyprian honeybees (Apis mellifera cypria) do possess stingers to defend themselves. However, their archenemy, the Oriental hornet (Vespa orientalis), is protected from such attacks by their hard body armor. ...
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Ducks, wasps and beetles are pioneer viticulturalist Johnathan Grieve's insect killers of choice in his goal of creating one of South Africa's first entirely organic wine farms.
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Honeybees can smother their enemies to death by swarming them, European researchers reported on Monday.
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NEW YORK  - Bee stings have long been known  to relieve some of the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis, but  only now has the reason for this been clarified.
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TOKYO -- On a recent business trip to Colorado, Japan's agriculture minister, Toshikatsu Matsuoka, popped into an inviting Japanese restaurant in the Denver suburbs with a hankering for a taste of back home. What he found instead was something he considered a high culinary crime -- sushi served on...
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The dreaded Africanized honey beeâbetter known as the &quot;killer bee&quot;âmay be buzzing slightly northward. Entomologists believe that an Africanized swarm was responsible for an attack in Tipton, Okla.
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A verdict of accidental death is recorded on a walker with an allergy to bee stings who was stung on his elbow.
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SANTA ANA, Calif. - All eight diners who came down with a rare lung infection after eating raw shellfish consumed live sawagani crabs on a dare, health officials said Friday.
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By Associated Press  Stingrays are strange-looking but normally shy creatures whose defenses include poisonous, serrated barbs in their tails.
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TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - Learn to move like a shadow and hurl deadly metal stars at your enemies from a Japanese ninja master -- the latest offering for holiday thrill-seekers.
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NEW LONDON, Conn. - Call it crustacean discrimination. A lobster caught last weekend by Steve Hatch and his uncle Robert Green was spared from being cooked and ripped apart on a plate because of its color.
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MADRID : A frightening hospital drama after reacting badly to a wasp sting did not deter South African Trevor Immelman from playing a leading role in the first round of the Madrid Open.
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A lifeÂs work led to the holy grail of fish breeding: bluefin tuna, a delicacy at Japanese restaurants, born and raised in captivity.
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On Tuesday night Mumbai witnessed a strange and shocking event. The producers of the forthcoming film Musafir hosted an Âitem- bombÂ contest to find a fresh young and needless to say, voluptuous dancer to perform a sizzling item number in their film.
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A tiny fly, possibly a species new to the United States, has been damaging some Louisiana rice fields, according to agriculture experts at the LSU AgCenter.