They chose ten plant species that kill parasites and cancer in lab tests , and ten species that look similar but do nothing . Then they headed into the panamanian jungle to survey hundreds of these plants for beetles and caterpillars .
After hatching from eggs laid on thyme flowers , the tiny caterpillars fall to the ground and secrete chemicals that make them smell like ants , who promptly mistake them for ant larvae and bring them back to the colony .
In the long term , though , he has grander plans : he would like to import edible insects such as the popular mopane caterpillars or set up a commercial operation selling insects already available here , such as spicy mexican grasshoppers , or chapulines .
Like termites , caterpillars , mopane worms , goat guts and all the other gross things I have eaten in my life , once was enough for me for dog meat : the taste just isn 't good enough to outweigh the notion of eating lassie .
Crickets are extremely high in calcium . Caterpillars are a fantastic source of iron , thiamin , and riboflavin .
蟋蟀富含高钙,毛虫是铁、硫胺和核黄素的优质来源。
It is made from a parasitic fungus found on the tibetan plateau that uses caterpillars as hosts and kills them .
它是由一种在青藏高原发现的寄生真菌所制成,利用蝙蝠蛾毛虫作为宿主而后致其死亡。
In spring , caterpillars time their emergence to coincide with the bud burst of trees ; birds start nesting when they can feed those newly emerged caterpillars to their fledglings .
春天,毛毛虫的出现时间和树木的萌芽一致;鸟儿开始筑巢的时间要跟毛虫出现的时间吻合,用来哺育幼鸟。
We crawled like caterpillars munched on leaves and rolled ourselves into a cocoon and wait wait waited until we developed wings .