"larvae" news and stories

It is not clear what the people at Berndes, a German cookware company, were thinking when they designed this pan. It is clear, however, that they did not agonize over the name, calling it simply the Fat Bug Cake Pan. This is not the usual shape you expect to find in a cake pan. You expect roses, hearts and maybe even a butterfly. You definitely do not expect to see a cast aluminum larvae mold. I give them full credit for originality, and the pan is no doubt of high quality, but I still can't see spending $25 to buy a pan shaped like, to put it generously, a "fat bug."

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Two Milford, Mass., girls got more than they bargained for when they shared a Hershey's Symphony bar laden with what are thought to have been moth larvae. Employees of the Walgreens where the chocolate was sold quickly removed the rest of the bars from shelves to find that they too had bug problems. The larvae aren't so much a health risk as a disgusting nuisance, according to a local health official quoted in a recent Metro West Daily News article. Still, the girls and their family claim the incident left them feeling ill.