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Here’s another 1980s band, Oingo Boingo, that we’re including in our Insect Music series.  Enjoy the video, “Insects” and your weekend!  

Thanks for the Facebook fan of Roscoe the Bed Bug Dog who requested we use Echo & the Bunnymen’s “Bedbugs and Ballyhoo” as our latest Friday Insect Music video. Enjoy this flashback to the alternative 80s song, complete with the original MTV labels.  (BTW, no one ever described a bed bug of having “Lips Like

A concerned bed bug victim emailed us, “I’ve detected bed bugs in my laptop and I want to know how to go about fixing this problem.” Good question!  Bed Bugs can and do occupy electronics and computers. This victim rightfully pointed out that bed bugs can and do live in any cracks and crevices of

For our latest Insect Music Friday, and in memory of Robin Gibb Here’s the Bee Gees’ ”You Should Be Dancing.”  (We know he passed away a few weeks ago, but  we had other music to cover before we got to disco.) We hope you have a great weekend.  

People consume insects in many parts of the world as a protein source. A large and increasingly demanded source of protein is livestock, which human societies increasingly desire as their incomes expand. In fact, global meat consumption has doubled on per capita basis in the developing world in the last 20 years. The United Nations

Today in our Insect Music series we flashback 31 years to the New Wave era, specifically to the first music video that was ever shown on MTV: The Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star.”  It’s not the video that we remember having aired after the MTV Rocket-ship and Moonman this week in 1981, (specifically on

Super Grover is the superhero persona of Sesame Street’s Grover. Super Grover uses his superpowers to help others, though generally he ends up not being much help at all. In the 2010 season of Sesame Street, Super Grover received an upgrade and his own segment as Super Grover 2.0. Super Grover 2.0 uses his superpowers

Bell Environmental is a New Jersey-headquartered company so you may ask what took us so long to get to Bruce Springsteen as part of our Insect Music Friday blog series.  Without any further wait, here’s “Wrecking Ball.”  Why this one, of all of Bruce’s songs, you may ask?  Because the lyrics include the line: “Now my

We and our children are fans and avid readers of Mo Willems’ pigeon series, especially the book “Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus,” (available on Amazon and Barnes and Noble) and turned into a clever video on YouTube.   But pigeons are a nuisance bird for reasons other than wanting to drive public transportation.

It took us a few weeks, but we got to one of our favorite Rock-n-Roll pioneers, Bully Holly & the Crickets, (and a direct inspiration for the Beatles.) Enjoy and have a great weekend!