If you've ever considered using insects to make beer (yes it is unlikely, but you never know) then this blog post from Siren Craft...

 NOWNESS magazine has a beautiful gallery of photos featuring the dishes the Nordic Food Lab created for Pestival, and manage...

 This short film on the Guardian website today captures well the excitement of last week's visit by the Nordic Food Lab and t...

BBC News sent a reporter down to the Wellcome Collection see what strange delights the Nordic Food Lab were concocting in its kitc...

Nordic Food Lab - the world-renowned culinary research institute founded by Noma restaurant - are on their way from Denmark t...

Susana Soares' illuminated insect traps got some well-deserved attention in the Huffington Post this week, along with a write up o...

Culture24 are licking their lips at the prospect of spiders for lunch in this preview of our Who's the Pest? fest: http://www.c...

The New Scientist reports on the 3D printed insect biscuit factory we have on the go at our Who's the Pest? installation at the We...

The new Who's The Pest? game developed by Pestival and Wellcome Collection has been made App of the Day!  The game allows the...

 The Telegraph have a fantastic gallery of images from Pestival's Insect au Gratin installation at the Wellcome Collection. &...

Radio 4 got the insect buzz last month with a three part series in which entomologist Erica McAlister took a look at, among other ...

 Londonist picks its highlights of the upcoming Who's The Pest? symposium at the Wellcome Collection.  Shown in the phot...

 Dr James Logan is conducting a walking tour called 'Secret Insects of Bloomsbury' as part of our Who's The Pest? festiv...

The Guardian highlights our Who's The Pest? festival as an example of the current interest in using insects as a food so...

In The guardian: Live and Roar           Axolotls are salamander-like creatures that can regrow t...

Upcoming 'Live and Roar: an Axolotl Odyssey' event in the London Evening Standard     Click here for free tickets...

Highly ANTicipated Ant Ballet on BBC News            Read full article and watch video here &nbs...

Pestivaler Ollie Palmer's Ant Ballet in Dazed and Confused       A celebration of all things digital, the ...

Want to help save the bees? Then start growing the right kind of flowers and plants!   Biologists at the University of Suss...

Ant painting is all the rage... for scientific purposes of course!   Here's a fascinating (and instructive, if you fancy gi...

New friend of Pestival, the author, composer and scientist Jaron Lanier has pointed out some amazing news to us: A pure, single-fr...

The delicate fibres that spiders spin have been used to create a material which can repel speeding  bullets. And it's four-ti...

We've got some great new images that have just arrived from the wonderful Entomophobia event Pestival directed in the Forum at the...

Pestival helped hundreds of people overcome their fear of insects at a packed event in the Forum at the Wellcome Collection one Th...

Roll-up! Roll-up! Peer at what you fear   Pestival’s carnival of creepy curios will take you to the weirdest cor...

Poor old bumblebees, their numbers have been decimated in recent years as bee colonies collapse, and latest research suggests thei...

Merry Xmas everyone! May you all have a very pestive one and a happy new year. Here's a wonderful animated film made in Moscow in...

Wasps can recognise other wasps of the same species perhaps with even greater accuracy than we humans can spot a W.A.S.P (white an...

With winter finally arriving, we thought it appropriate to tell you about an insect that can survive in the planet's most extreme ...

Ant Ballet | Pestival 2011 from Ollie Palmer on Vimeo. Pestival's incredible Ant Ballet, directed and arranged by Ollie Palmer ...

Cyborg insects could soon be helping in disaster zones search-and- rescue operations, or, more sinsterly, be flying around a secur...

Is it a cockroach? Is it an anteater? Is it an elephant even?! No, it's an ant-roach!   Those fantastic inventors and educa...

Well, who the hell wouldn't! No, seriously...   Have you ever wondered why flies love buzzing around beer so much? Are our ...

New studies show that ants, along with other insects, are far from just being the instinctive machines which hatch, all ready to g...

 Time flies when you’re having lunch... In the last week, our friends over at Imagine Science Films gave their Nature S...

 A giant wasp nest was removed from above a shelf of insect killer in a Taunton garden centre, with the nest measuring 6 foot...

They seem at first very cool and a good way of collecting butterflies without killing them! Yet is this just a sign of the future ...

By mimicking liquids, ants stay afloat on top of waterRain may seem a harmless nuisance to us humans, but for ants, it's a big dea...

 New Technology has allowed the guys at the Science Photo Library to capture insects closer and clearer than ever before. Ent...

 Pestival friend Mark Moffett has won the Reader's Choice award at The Scientist's 2011 Labby Multimedia Awards for his video...

The beautiful horse chestnut tree, so redolent of the British countryside, is being terrorised by an alien moth and conker tree lo...

 Yet another celebrity has jumped on the 'sponsor your mum' bandwagon and we couldn't be happier.Orlando Bloom has supported ...

 Pestival Designer Susana Soares' 'Am I Attractive?'' in collaboration with Dr James Logan and Pestival at The Work Gallery t...

 Insect enthusiasts swarmed to the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences earlier this month for Beetle Mania! Their 4th an...

 A rare and intriguing giant wasp has recently been discovered in the depths of the Indonesian Island of Sulawesi. At 4cm lon...

 Dan Otte, 72, has spent his life leaping about, not pretending to be a grasshopper... but catching them!He has spent four de...

In Sex on Six Legs: Lessons on Life, Love, and Language from the Insect World, Marlene Zuk examines the minds, personalities and b...

The Tragedy of The Commons, a new installation at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, puts the everyday life and struggles of an ant colon...

 Stuck for a new hair style? Adrienne Antonson has crafted hers and her family's into beautiful insect sculptures. Both eyebr...

 Pestivaller Ollie Palmer just sent us this news....These ants' translucent abdomens give the game away when they slurp up al...

 The Love Motel for Insects was designed by Brandon Balengee to give audiences a better appreciation for local ecology and in...

Bees have always supported of us through the important work they do for agriculture. Isn’t it about time we supported them a...

 Downtown New York is partying bed bug style to highlight the rife infestation of the city. Embracing the bugs’ tenacio...

 Get a quirky look at the human race through the eyes of a cockroach at the Science Museum's new inquisitive tour. Watch the ...

Bees have always supported of us through the important work they do for agriculture. Isn’t it about time we supported them a...

 Have a peep at these bees on a live webcam stream from inside a 9-year-old boys hive in Melton Mowbray....

 The beautiful Midsummer Chronophage clock at The London Science Museum celebrates and parodies the mechanical ‘Grassho...

 ... is in the hands of The Water Boatman!   At just 2mm long, The Micronecta scholtz sings at 99.2 decibels, the equi...

 Ask anyone in the southern states of the US about fire ants, and they will regale you with tales of painful bites, house inv...

 In light of Adam Curtis' current BBC TV series, here's a more insect-related documentary about the perils of DDT, Goodbye Mr...

Apostolos Loufopoulos recently won an Ars Electronica Award of Distinction for this 13-minute composition of a bee's journey. &nb...

Usually it is thousands of shoppers who buzz through the hive of central London but Pestival was pleased to see that the honey pot...

Pest friend Catherine Chalmers is featured in The Scientific American with a story on The Leafcutters project. One quote about her...

We love this insect-inspired packaging for Barcelona's patisserie Borinot, whose name means "a flying buzzing insect", designed by...

This great video (there are more if you follow the link too) by Australian TV show Hungry Beast is full of fascinating facts about...

Designer Mateusz Chmura has come up with The Grass Chopper - an elegant new bike "mimicking the wings and folded legs of a grassho...

 From Pestivaller David Rothenberg:"Following my previous book/CD projects on birds and whales, I am now on a quest to make m...

Microphotographer Tomas Rak has been taking these amazing photographs of insects under a microscope and then stitching the images ...

 "When bird-dwelling lice hitchhike on pigeon flies to spread to new host species, it can change the course of their evolutio...

The Finnish new media theorist Jussi Parrika has written a book called Insect Media: An Archaeology of Animals and Technology, whi...

This is an unbelievable trace fossil of a mayfly that alighted in mud and then flew off, around 310 million years ago. As always, ...

Artist Hubert Duprat opened his first UK solo show last week: Caddis, Crystal and Company at Norwich Castle Museum. The show incor...

 Artist Matthew Robins explains his new project, The Roboinsects, which he installed at London Zoo last week as part of Pesti...

 Pestivaller Dr Leslie Vosshall sent us this news clipping from the BBC South East Asia:"Staff at an Indian bank have been bl...

 This is perhaps the oldest known occurrence of a praying mantis in art, taken from the Tomb of Hesi at Saqqara. More infor...

  The BBC reports that scientists in Inner Mongolia have unearthed the largest spider fossil ever found, with a leg span o...

Designer Jamie Hutchinson has designed a beautiful Bee Station for tired bees who are having to work twice as hard due to the decl...

The Voronoi Mega Yacht by Hyun-Seok Kim features a honeycomb lattice structure which encases the sleek design......

Pestival hero Thomas Eisner died last month. We pay homage to the great man with an inordinate fondness for beetles.The New York T...

Pestivaller Susana Soares sent us a link to this BLoG BLOG post on beautiful 3D-printed simulated insect wings, courtesy of Cornel...

Science Daily ran a great article yesterday on a new study showing the link between orchid diversity and bees.Researchers from Imp...

Pestival friends yellow sac spiders have been popping up in the fuel systems of Mazda and Honda cars in the USA, which apparently ...

Our Pest friend Catherine Chalmers sent us these beautiful photos from Costa Rica. She writes, "The ants and I have reached a wond...

Artist Karen Ingham has developed Pollinator Frocks which are treated with a nectar-like sugar solution to attract and nourish bee...

Jonas King from the Vanderbilt University’s Hillyer Lab has won Nikon's Small World Competition with a photomicrograph of a ...

The Observer Ethical Awards (now in its sixth year) invites UK based conservation projects to enter this year's prestigious Conser...

An insect living in the Early Cretaceous Period, whose fossilised remains were found in northeast Brazil, wore snowshoes of sorts ...

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Hey guys, just thought you might like to have a look at Damian Hirst's latest offering. We at Pestival hear the casting couch is s...

 Don't worry this is not quite a reality yet. However, researchers from Arizona State University have been experimenting with...

Only takes a hundred or so million years to come back into high fashion but  Alexander McQueen's heir apparent, Sarah Burton,...

Parasitic worms may be saving their own little hides when they induce the caterpillars they infest to glow a little and blush a fu...

Insects and creepy crawlies is the theme of this year's sand-sculpting competition on Frankston Waterfront in Melbourne Australia....

A great new tradition has been started in the USA Cumberland County town of Eastover this New Year’s Eve by dropping a 30-po...

Amazing packing-tape cocoons by Viennese/Croatian collective For Use/Numen.   Watch the making-of film below...   ...

TechNewsDaily ran a great article last week on how insects, birds and even snakes and geckoes are inspiring the design of next-gen...

The Bee Symphony, consisting of recordings of bees by Pestival friend and collaborator  Chris Watson (The Life of Birds,The L...

LIFE Magazine has some great photos of Vladimir Nabokov enjoying his life-long hobby, butterfly hunting. Nabokov wasn't your ordin...

As promised, here are some photos of the Termite Pavilion getting situated in its lovely new home at Escot Parkin Devon.   ...

 In case you weren't listening to BBC Radio 4 at 06:15 am this Sunday morning, I thought I would present to you the case of o...