We’re a far cry from “insect rights,” mused the bioethicist and animal rights advocate Peter Singer, but the prospect of bugs’ inner lives ups the ethical stakes. This moral hornet’s ...

Hissing is also part of the cockroach's mating ritual, and can be used as an effective alarm cry. Most insects that make noise do so by rubbing their body parts together or by employing vibrating ...

and people would cry over it. When one was slaughtered, the chief would ritually eat its tongue. The jaglavak, for its part, held the role of "prince of insects." In the past, Mofu mountain chiefs ...

This is because specific pH levels, enzymes, and midgut receptors are required to activate and bind a given Cry toxin to midgut cells, which leads to pore formation in the insect's intestine and ...