A small cockroach was found in the rice bought from a Bedok stall on Jan 23. Read more at stomp.straitstimes.com ...

As a dye, the female cochineal insect is harvested, killed and sun or oven dried. The insects are small, so it takes roughly 70,000 insects to make a pound of dye. But the dye is commercially ...

Helmablatta louisrothi is a tiny cockroach that doesn’t scuttle through kitchens or dark basements. Instead, it hitches rides on bats. First discovered in the Tan Phu cave—part of a lava-tube ...