Hello Beetle Queen empire! I’ve kindly been invited to post here, so I thought I’d start with a bit about grasshoppers, since a voracious swarm is currently making an all-you-can-eat buffet out of the eastern Wyoming and Montana hay, wheat and alfalfa crops, a topic I recently wrote about at my own blog.
In her film, [...]

Please join me in welcoming our next guest blogger, Jennifer Frazer. Jennifer writes the awesome and amazing science blog, The Artful Amoeba. She has a true knack for the ever-rare talent of communicating to both the layperson and academic alike. And her subjects often seem geared not just toward education, but towards wonder.
Jennifer and [...]

Mealworm Cricket Empanadas with Cilantro Yogurt Sauce
Prep Time: 30 minutes / Cook Time: 40 minutes / Total Time: 70 minutes / Makes appox. 14 empanadas

Hello world and thanks to Jessica for allowing me to be a guest blogger. Like those of you out there who are waiting for Beetle Queen to come to your city, I am also anticipating the screening to make its way to SF!
So who am I anyways? I’ve been advocating entomophagy, or the consumption [...]

I am excited to welcome our next guest blogger, Rosanna Yau of minilivestock.org. Turns out Rosanna and I have a lot more in common than just bugs. Like Beetle Queen, Rosanna’s work uses insects explore larger themes. Her philosophies are surprisingly aligned with those expressed in the film - but whether or [...]

I’m so delighted to be a guest-blogger with Myriapod Productions! I’m an ecologist with a love of the spineless, so Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo is a film that is right up my alley. I think that I have a lot in common with Jessica Oreck…our love of nature and our overall respect for [...]

I recently had the chance to correspond (via email) with Dr. Carin Bondar and she has agreed to write a guest post on the BQ blog. To learn more about her and read more of her work you may visit her site www.carinbondar.com.
And be sure to check out her fascinating piece posted here tomorrow!

Visiting New Orleans for the New Orleans Film Festival, I had the pleasure of hanging out with the house entomologist of Audubon Insectarium, Zack Lemann. Our last guest blogger, Rachael Teel, covered a bit about the Insectarium in her final entry, but I thought Zack could add an insider’s perspective. Listen to the [...]