Word: insectes
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...aren't good enough by themselves, says entomologist Ken Grace of the University of Hawaii. "If there's an area where others are dying, they'll wall it off and avoid it." So termite fighters are looking instead at slow poisons. One of the most promising is hexaflumuron, an insect-growth regulator that interferes with the termites' molting process. Bugs that have ingested the stuff don't notice any effects at first, so they spread it throughout a colony without suspecting they're under attack. Then, when it's time to shed their external skeletons and form new ones...
...have never read his books recognize his last name as an adjective: Kafkaesque, a signature form of 20th century dread. During his brief life in Prague, he wrote about a web of inexplicable predicaments, as in The Metamorphosis (1915). What do you do when you wake up as an insect...
...order of the Honey, I Shrunk the Audience attraction at EPCOT. Inspired by characters in this fall's film release A Bug's Life (from Disney and Pixar, the tandem that made Toy Story), this creepy-crawly mini-epic features a cast of zillions and plenty of clever insect asides. But the kids will love the gross-out effects. One tiny creature, the Termite-ator, blows "snot" at the audience (you will get wet). A stink bug backs up to the screen and engulfs the crowd in his sulfurous stench (face it, fart jokes are funny...
...DreamWorks moved the premiere of Prince of Egypt to December to keep it away from A Bug's Life, Disney announced it was moving Mighty Joe Young--a picture starring Bill Paxton and an ape--from this summer to Prince's new date. DreamWorks has its own computer-created insect feature, Antz, coming...
...nearly every page of Paradise. Morrison's prose remains the marvel that it was in her earlier novels, a melange of high literary rhetoric and plain talk. She can turn pecan shelling into poetry: "the tick of nut meat tossed in the bowl, cooking utensils in eternal adjustment, insect whisper, the argue of long grass, the faraway cough of cornstalks." She captures the stark geography surrounding Ruby: "This land is flat as a hoof, open as a baby's mouth." And she builds Ruby practically brick by brick: its streets (named after the four Gospels), the three churches (Baptist, Methodist...