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A man in an orange jump suit leans his arm on a red 1965 model Volkswagen Beetle car.

Life after death of the ‘Love Bug’ in Ethiopia

Culture

Volkswagen will halt production of its latest version of the Beetle model car at its plant in Puebla, Mexico on Wednesday. Production of the original version of the curvy little vehicles ended in 2003. But, in Addis Ababa, Beetles enjoy a kind of life after death; their parts are never discarded but re-used to keep the city’s remaining Beetles on the road.

Bug farmer working to introduce insects to European diets

Business, Economics and Jobs

How to fight bed bugs without using poisonous chemicals

Health & Medicine

Bed bugs: Entomological terrorists

Haute Cuisine: Spanish Farm Makes Bet on ‘Bug Revolution’

Arts, Culture & Media
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Evolution in Action

Biologists examine the tiny red-shouldered soapberry bug and discover they’ve rapidly adapted to the world around them.

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Evolution in Action

Biologists examine the tiny red-shouldered soapberry bug and discover they’ve rapidly adapted to the world around them.

Don’t Bug Out

Big bugs, bad news? Not according to Dr. Jon Harrison who describes what it would take to bring the giant insects of 300 million years ago into the present.

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A Bug Lover’s Life

Author Sue Hubbell gets up close to the creatures which crawl, creep and slither past us each and every day.

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Winter insects

Sometimes it takes the eye, of a trained naturalist, like Living On Earth commentator Sy Montgomery to point out the more subtle characters in daily life like the bugs of winter. Sy Montgomery is author of “Life’s Everyday Mysteries”. She comes to us care of New Hampshire Public Radio.

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