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Wasp crackers are creating a buzz

Posted Sep 11th 2007 2:02PM by Sarah J. Gim
Filed under: Grains, Asia, Food Oddities, New Products

I've heard of people eating ants, crickets, and even larvae, but wasps? Not until today.

In Omachi, Japan, a village 120 miles northwest of Tokyo, 80-year-old hunters catch digger wasps in nearby forests. The wasps are boiled, dried, then sprinkled over a cracker dough, which is cut with hot iron stamps to create the cracker shapes. The crackers are called jibachi senbei and are sold in packages of 20 for a mere £1.60.

Wonder if you can feel a sting.

Using Insects to Detect Wine Faults

Posted Jul 24th 2006 4:07PM by Andrew Barrow
Filed under: Wine, Science, Australia

Boffins down in Australia are attempting to use the odour receptors on insects to build a 'cybernose'. They think that the power that insects have will detect aromas in minute quantities. If they manage to do this the aim is to detect wine faults - brettanomyces (smells like shit), cork taint and other faults.

Wasps - well they had to have some use - have the ability to detect individual smells at concentrations of one part per trillion. Each insect has about 60 different odour receptor proteins and by using electrical signals the inventors hope to mimick an insects behaviour.

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