I worked for an insect farm for over a year. It was run by unremarkable capitalists of mediocre intelligence who wouldn’t accept any assertion that there was room for improvement.

Because they failed so hard at growing a certain species of grub, we had to truck in our stock of that species from another company so we could resell it. They must have had pretty bad containment procedures because crickets got in with the grubs. But the crickets were fine in transit.

If they didn’t, I’d have to revise my business model a bit.

Crickets are different from grasshoppers, they’re in the same order but different families. Grasshoppers are the ones that turn into locusts.

Typically you can buy crickets from the Acheta or Gryllodes genus pretty easily, the ones for this prank probably cost around $70-100.

We need to keep in mind how much of the scientific framing (and thus our understanding of the matter) is shaped by Anglo ideology.

“Colony” and “queen” and “worker” are three such examples.

Is insect frass considered vegan? Asking for a friend.

More revolving-door presidential cabinets! MORE!

Jam is a dessert food. It doesn’t belong as a central part of a meal.

Yet Americans will eat it with sweetened peanut butter and sweetened bread and call the resulting creation, whether in its squishiness or its sogginess, a full meal.

Chevre or Havarti or even Gouda would make a good addition. Parmesan or Cheddar would not. Cheez Whiz would be the cursed option.

Ranch only works as an alternate pizza sauce, anything else is

little pressure and POP out comes a little beetle of ear wax.

All the commercial ear drops are based on either vinegar, alcohol, or hydrogen peroxide. And a list of antibiotics that steadily gets longer as resistance disseminates.

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/treatments/24654-ear-drops

I was reading a scientific article a few days ago about mealworms (of course), and the process by which they extract water from the air. Turns out it more than doubles their metabolic rate just to do that.

So even the biomimetics isn’t going to get us very far on this one.

The kind of solution you’re looking for involves moist soils with high levels of organic matter. That, and using less water for economic activity.

I went by the farmers’ market the other day and a stall had duck eggs for $8-10 a dozen. Buying 36-packs from Walmart is maybe about $1 a dozen. I don’t see it going much lower than that, or higher than $20, though.

For a while now I’ve been fairly convinced that everyday expenditures scale logarithmically with income. The increase is pretty smooth, and tapers off pretty smoothly too.

Back in the day, before we invented hollow walls, you could do a whole bunch of effective home DIY with just a shovel, a hatchet, and a bucket or two. Forget commodities, retvrn to straw that you cut yourself.

Buddy, do I have just the financial instrument for you!

Physically quite dirty but ethically clean.

antialiassing

if you have chickens I will send you worms very close to at-cost