And it's perfectly normal to snack on fried insects in Thailand, where fried giant water bugs, crickets, bamboo worms and grasshoppers are ubiquitous and served in scoops for snacking whole.

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With timber REITs you trade the risk of fire, water and bugs for the risk of company mismanagement.

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The robot is designed to mimic the Gerridae family of bugs, which are more commonly knows as water striders.

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According to NPR, because the researchers only analyzed the samples for genetic signatures of different pathogens, they couldn't determine whether the bugs were alive, and potentially reproducing in the water, but there were no pool-related diseases reported in Atlanta during the summer the samples were gathered.

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