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  • Ladybugs swarming on top of Timber Peak above the Langmuir Atmospheric Research Lab, near Socorro, New Mexico. USA..
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  • Scorpions swarming at the Ru Yang Boda Scorpion Breeding Company, a new business in China's burgeoning market economy in Luo Yang, China. Scorpions in China are useful as both food and traditional Chinese medicine. Scorpions are in such demand that they are raised domestically (ranch style) by Chinese entrepreneurs. The Boda ranch's thirty employees are raising more than three million scorpions for public consumption in a football field-sized brick building. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Swarming scorpions, members of Fan Yuelian's family business; the scorpions are raised in the family's apartment in plastic bins and are intended for sale in the city's Bird and Flower Market. (Man Eating Bugs page 97)
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  • Koi Fish in the backyard pond of Mr. Demello in Northern California. Koi are a variety of the common carp, Cyprinus carpio. Today Koi are bred in nearly every country and considered to be the most popular fresh-water ornamental pond fish. They are often referred to as being "living jewels" or "swimming flowers". If kept properly, koi can live about 30-40 years. Some have been reportedly known to live up to 200 years. The Koi hobbyists have bred over 100 color varieties. Every Koi is unique, and the patterns that are seen on a specific Koi can never be exactly repeated. The judging of Koi at exhibitions has become a refined art, which requires many years of understanding the relationship between color, pattern, size and shape, presentation, and a number of other key traits. Prize Koi can cost several thousand dollars  USA. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Squirming flesh-colored marine worms for sale in a plastic tub in the Qing Ping Market. They are sold (not as bait) but as food, along with plump pink silkworm pupae and shiny black hard-shelled water beetles.   Guangzhou Province, China. (Man Eating Bugs page 86,87)
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  • Swarming rats feeding and drinking water at the Hindu Rat Temple in Deshnoke, Rajasthan, India. This ornate Hindu temple was constructed by Maharaja Ganga Singh in the early 1900s as a tribute to the rat goddess, Karni Mata..
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