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More than 90,000 eggs contaminated with the insecticide Fipronil were seized by police in Italy, DPA reported.

Price of honey in Bulgaria has gone up by 20% because of the high mortality rate of honeybees, which reaches 60% and even 100% this year. According to beekeepers, about a third of the products on the market do not have the necessary qualities because they are mixed with Ukrainian and Chinese honey, reported the Bulgarian National Television. 

The first human insect products will be available for sale in Swiss supermarkets next week, AFP reported.

Those who wish will taste burgers and meatballs of flour worms with rice, vegetables and spices, they will be sold in the Coop stores.

Experts are analyzing contaminated egg products imported from the Netherlands to two establishments in France, one of four countries the European Union notified Monday that some eggs contaminated with an insecticide may have crossed their borders, reported CBS News.

A molecule previously used as an antibiotic could be key in combating the effects of the Zika virus, according to new research from a Spanish university.

As we’ve written before, the mysterious mass die-off of honey bees that pollinate $30 billion worth of crops in the US has so decimated America’s apis mellifera population that one bad winter could leave fields fallow.

A bug over half a meter (1.6 feet) long discovered in southern China has been declared the world’s longest insect, state media said Thursday.

Want revenge over your ex? Never fear because the Bronx Zoo is offering a program where you can name one of the zoo’s Madagascar hissing cockroaches for just $10. The program started in 2011 and is extremely popular. People are naming cockroaches after their ex for revenge but also for their true loves… because after all, cockroaches can survive anything – even a nuclear holocaust.

By Yiannis Elafros

Catarina Rydin and Kristina Bolinder from the Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences at Stockholm University accidentally discovered that pollination in the gymnosperm Ephedra foeminea is linked with the full moon. They made this discovery after a fruitless study of the plants of Greece and Croatia. It hit them that the plants may have been waiting for moonlight to bloom.