The salt lakes fill with fresh water, and millions of water birds - pelicans, stilts, shags and gulls - can be seen feeding on the superabundant fish and insect life.

BBC: Watching Australia's wildlife

He already receives EU money in exchange for leaving areas fallow for nesting birds, as well as weedy, grassy verges to encourage insect life for the birds to feed on.

BBC: Farmers 'key to halting bird decline'

My hunch is that the presence of wildlife says less about whatever suppliers Solo and its sister restaurants use than the prevalence of insect life in what we routinely consume at restaurants whose hygienic standards aren't as high.

WSJ: 'Because God Says So'

Together with his Siberian Mouse and Egyptian Lizard, the fancifully-named insect was a life-size automaton with perfectly realistic movement.

FORBES

Sharman Apt Russell has done a wonderful job of gathering bits of exotic butterfly lore to brighten up her account of the insect's life-cycle, its acrobatic sexual practices and its amazing gift for mimicry.

ECONOMIST: Butterflies

To hear the Insect on the leaf pronouncing on the too much life among his hungry brothers in the dust.

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The walls are covered with psychedelic paintings of women and on display on the second floor, thousands of carefully catalogued beetles, stick insects, butterflies and mosquitoes are labelled and pinned to white boards, the life work of owners Manop and Dr Rampa Rattanarithikul, a local husband and wife team of insect specialists.

BBC: Chiang Mai��s quirky insect wonderland