Nearly four years after Katrina in real-life New Orleans, entomologists say a change in the ecosystem has caused some bugs to proliferate and others to die off.

Alison Gros wanted to come up with a way to get her fourth-grade special education students at Andrew Jackson Elementary School excited for preparing for their Louisiana Educational Assessment Program tests. She and her student teacher assistant decided to eat worms.

I am one of the pickiest eaters you’ll ever meet. If I have a five-course meal, I will eat each item one by one. I never mix my foods; in fact I don’t even allow different food items on my plate to touch. But somehow I came to allow myself to sample some insects.
Bug Appetit [...]