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Scientists Discovered a Bizarre Insect Deep Inside a Greek Cave, and It Was Unlike Anything They Expected

A team of Greek entomologists has identified a new species of cave-dwelling cricket hidden beneath the island of Kastellorizo ...
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Acheta Powder (Cricket Flour)

One of the most common bugs people eat are crickets. Acheta powder, or cricket powder, is one of the most popular ways to consume bugs in the United States. People have eaten insects since ancient ...
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Crickets caught tending their own wounds have scientists rethinking what insects actually feel

After a heated probe touched one of its antennae, a cricket did something researchers hadn’t quite expected: it kept coming back to that exact spot. Again and again, it groomed the affected antenna — ...
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Crickets, Likely Other Insects, Cannot Distinguish Between Microplastics and Food

To a human, microplastics are very small at less than 5 millimeters (mm) wide. But to an insect, microplastics might be the same size as the food they usually eat. Researchers reporting in ACS’ ...