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Improve Your Health with Medicinal Mushrooms

For thousands of years mushrooms have been valued in different cultures for their medicinal and psychedelic properties. They were used by shamans and medicine men and found a way to highly organized medical...

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Adult Screwworm Fly.  Note red eyes.    panama-guide.com80

The Screwworm - Cochliomyia Horminivorax - is a Real Man-Eater!

  *Maggots that gobble living flesh *Factories with rigid security *The Fly that has killed thousands of humans and millions of cattle! Of all the nasty insects waiting in the wings (and on the...

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The reduviid, or Assassin Bug.  A killer causing thousands of deaths every year.71

The Tiniest Vampire

You may have read my recent article on Hubpages about poisons. We touched on some of the nasties that inhabit the planet and can be lethal to man. But these venomous creatures: spiders, scorpions, box...

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Insects: Our Very Survival Depends On Them.

  Despite the fact insects are by far the most numerous creatures on earth, representing an astounding 80% of all animal species, people on the whole know little about them. We all learn the obvious in...

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Swine Flu and Illegal Imigration, is this a sign of things to come

For the last several weeks we have been hearing about the impending Swine Flu (or N1H1) pandemic that was going to hit the US.  Well thank God that it didn't turn out to be as a bad as officials thought it...

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The Cockroach. Not a beetle not a bug but kin to both      credit wiki.com73

The Differences Between Beetles and Bugs.

When is a Bug not a Bug? When it's a Beetle! According to current terminology, for which we may have to thank our cousins from the United States, all small crawly things, including bugs, are…bugs. Not to...

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