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Chocolate-covered insects served up at insect museum
The menu includes crickets and wax worms on skewers for dipping in a fountain of melted chocolate, along with "tarsal toffee" made with bug legs and mealworms and fudge infused with crickets and marshmallows.
What looked like a Halloween...
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Southeast Asia''s only termite-sniffing dog
AP Television
Singapore, 9 March 2010
1. Mid shot exterminator van arriving at a client''s home, Anandan the termite detection dog handler gets out of the van
2. Close up Termite Detection Dog logo on van
3. Mid shot Pippa, the termite...
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The city of Los Angeles is buzzing over a proposal to allow urban beekeeping despite concerns over killer bees. On Wednesday, the City Council will vote on whether to begin the process of granting bees legal status in LA's residential areas. (Feb. 12)
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SOUNDBITE (English) Rob McFarland, co-founder of HoneyLove.org and bee-keeper:
"It's better to have managed colonies with beekeepers who are trained to look after them and to help their...
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JAPAN: TOKYO: SCIENTISTS DEVELOPING CYBER BUGS
English/Nat
The surveillance bug of the future could well be...a bug.
Japanese scientists are developing electronically controlled cockroaches fitted out with mini-cameras and other sensory equipment.
The aim is to produce cyber-insects...
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IRAN: TEHRAN: SUFFERING OF CHILDREN IN MENTAL ASYLUM REVEALED
Farsi/Nat
In some of the most disturbing pictures to come out of Iran in recent years, APTV reveals the suffering inflicted on children kept like prisoners in a mental asylum outside Tehran.
Tied up and manacled to their beds, 400...
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Butterfly vivarium opens at Natural History Museum
1. Wide exterior of American Museum of Natural History
2. Butterfly exhibit with photographers
3. Photographer taking picture through magnifying glass
4. Close up of butterflies through magnifying glass
5. Close up of young boy's face...
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Insects promoted as a good food source
Chiang Mai, 19 February 2008
1. Close of fried salted water bugs
2. Close fried grasshoppers
3. Close of bamboo worms, change focus to silk worms in the foreground
4. Pan of trays full of edible insects
5. Mid of trays full of fried...
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CHINA: SOARING TRADE DEFICIT WITH US THREATENS TO SPOIL RELATIONS
Mandarin/Nat
China's soaring trade deficit with the United States threatens to spoil steadily improving relations, a senior US trade official warned on Wednesday.
US Undersecretary of Commerce David Aaron urged Chinese trade and industry...
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New device gets rid of head lice without shampoo or chemicals
AP Television News
Salt Lake City, Utah - 2 November 2006
1. Clayton demonstrating device on student
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Dale Clayton, University of Utah :
"It's a machine that delivers a large volume of heated air, not quite as hot...
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Anti-venom saves a great grandmother bitten by a deadly spider
Umina Beach, NSW, Australia, March 6 2009:
1. Wide pan up of Mavis Tanner pushing her walker
2. Wide rear shot Mavis Tanner walking
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Mavis Tanner, oldest survivor:
"They're talking about putting me in the...
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Techie toys take centre stage
Tokyo, Japan, 16 July 2009
1. Toy character posing for the camera
2. Various of Dream Cat Venus robot
3. Close up of fake cakes
4. Various of making a fake cake with fake whipped cream and fruits
5. Various wide shots of exhibition
6....
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A 'bat hospital' cares for the injured animals
Isle of Wight, United Kingdom - recent
1. Close of 'Bat Hospital' sign on window of house
2. Close of bat shaped door knocker
3. Mid of toy bat hanging on mirror in house
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Graham Street, Bat Hospital owner (walking...
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UGANDA/KENYA: RIVER NILE IS BLOCKED BY WEED
Source of the Nile, Uganda, December 5, 1995
1. Wide shot: source of the Nile.
2. Sign marking the spot where the source commences.
3. Shot of many floating weeds (water hyacinth) which have caused a massive ...
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Scientists release wasps to combat pests threatening the cassava crop
Hoping to combat a cassava bug that's threatening the crop across Indonesia, scientists released 3,000 parasitic wasps on Wednesday into a tent-like habitat in an infected cassava field in Bogor.
They are the size of a pinhead and don't...
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Wildlife shelter offers a refuge for indigenous animals in need
A South African shelter seeking to help indigenous creatures is on a mission to save those that stray into city suburbs.
An orphaned water mongoose, dozens of meerkats handed in by people who tried keeping them as pets and several bats...
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SOUTH AFRICA: JOHANNESBURG ZOO HOLDS SECOND ANNUAL BUGFEST
English/Nat
In what is turning into a bizarre annual ritual, Johannesburg Zoo has held its second ever bugfest.
Among the exotic dishes at the bug barbeque: mopane worms, roast cockroach and chocolate-coated locusts.
A Sunday lunch...
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DV Texas Spiders
HEADLINE: Yikes! One massive spider web
CAPTION: A marvel of nature or very creepy? You decide. Rich Matthews reports from Texas where a giant family of spiders has spun one gigantic web. (Sept. 4)
[Notes:ANCHOR VOICE] ...
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South Africa - Creepy crawlies on the lunch menu
South Africa has certainly become a place for the brave in heart and stomach. Recently Johannesburg Zoo staged a most extraordinary event. Not only were visitors encouraged to admire and even touch some of the country's most exotic...
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An American piano tuner restores instruments in Communist Cuba
FILE: August 11, 2000
1. Various of Cuban musician Ruben Gonzalez, pianist with the Buena Vista Social Club band, playing piano
May 18, 2006
2. Various exteriors of ENA (Escuela Nacional Musica), Havana's Superior Art Institute
3. Piano...
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Jay Chou and Eason Chan top Golden Melody Awards
music/video/performance rights must be cleared
AP Television
Taipei,Taiwan June 27, 2009.
1. Wide shot Korean boy band "Super Junior" walking on red carpet.
2. Fans screaming to "Super Junior".
3. Pan shot members of "Super Junior"...
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TAHITI: ANTI NUCLEAR PROTESTERS GATHER OFF FRENCH TEST SITE
Eng/French/Nat
A war of words has broken out between the government of French Polynesia and anti-nuclear protesters gathering off the French nuclear test site in the South Pacific.
The president of French Polynesia, Gaston Flosse, has...
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The Houston Zoo this weekend opens its first insectarium in the park's 92-year history, featuring some exotic and venomous species in more than two dozen custom habitats that make up what's being dubbed "The Bug House." (May 23)
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The Houston Zoo this weekend opens its first insectarium in the park's 92-year history, featuring some exotic and venomous species in more than two dozen custom habitats that make up what's...
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Hundreds join protest against bill they fear will put food sovereignty at risk
Demonstrators took the streets of Chile's capital on Saturday to protest a proposed bill they say would put at risk the country's food sovereignty.
The protesters rallied against the so-called "Monsanto Law", which seeks to expand...