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Scorpions are predatory arachnids with eight legs, a pair of grasping pincers and a narrow, segmented tail, often carried in a characteristic forward curve over the back and always ending with a stinger. The evolutionary history of scorpions goes back to the Silurian Period, approximately 430 million years ago. They mainly live in deserts but have adapted to a wide range of environmental conditions, and can be found on all continents except Antarctica. There are over 2,500 described species, with 22 extant (living) families recognized to date. Their taxonomy is being revised to account for 21st-century genomic studies.

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“Farming insects creates just 1 percent of the greenhouse gases generated by farming an equivalent mass of beef or pork.”
— PLOS.org An Exploration on Greenhouse Gas and Ammonia Production by Insect Species Suitable for Animal or Human Consumption Dennis G. A. B. Oonincx, Joost van Itterbeeck, Marcel J. W. Heetkamp, Henry van den Brand, Joop J. A. van Loon, Arnold van Huis Published: December 29, 2010http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0014445
“Al Azif [...] that nocturnal sound (made by insects) suppos’d to be the howling of daemons.”
— H.P. Lovecraft, The History of the Necronomicon (1927).
“Siquidem et per naturam pleraque mutationem recipiunt, et corrupta in diversas species transformantur; sicut de vitulorum carnibus putridis apes, sicut de equis scarabei, de mulis locustae, de cancris scorpiones.”
— Many creatures go through a natural change and by decay pass into different forms, as bees [are formed] by the decaying flesh of calves, as beetles from horses, locusts from mules, scorpions from crabs.
“To a first approximation, all multicellular species on earth are insects.”
— N. E. Stork 2007. Biodiversity: world of Insects. Nature 448, 657-658 (9 August 2007)
“Empowering rural women can significantly increase productivity, improve rural livelihoods and reduce hunger and malnutrition.”
— 2013 UN report as quoted in How Eating Insects Empowers Women
“Happy the Cicadas live, since they all have voiceless wives.”
— Xenarchus (Grecian poet), quoted in Charles Darwin, Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex (1876).

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“Farming insects creates just 1 percent of the greenhouse gases generated by farming an equivalent mass of beef or pork.”
— PLOS.org An Exploration on Greenhouse Gas and Ammonia Production by Insect Species Suitable for Animal or Human Consumption Dennis G. A. B. Oonincx, Joost van Itterbeeck, Marcel J. W. Heetkamp, Henry van den Brand, Joop J. A. van Loon, Arnold van Huis Published: December 29, 2010http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0014445
“Al Azif [...] that nocturnal sound (made by insects) suppos’d to be the howling of daemons.”
— H.P. Lovecraft, The History of the Necronomicon (1927).
“Siquidem et per naturam pleraque mutationem recipiunt, et corrupta in diversas species transformantur; sicut de vitulorum carnibus putridis apes, sicut de equis scarabei, de mulis locustae, de cancris scorpiones.”
— Many creatures go through a natural change and by decay pass into different forms, as bees [are formed] by the decaying flesh of calves, as beetles from horses, locusts from mules, scorpions from crabs.
“To a first approximation, all multicellular species on earth are insects.”
— N. E. Stork 2007. Biodiversity: world of Insects. Nature 448, 657-658 (9 August 2007)
“Empowering rural women can significantly increase productivity, improve rural livelihoods and reduce hunger and malnutrition.”
— 2013 UN report as quoted in How Eating Insects Empowers Women
“Happy the Cicadas live, since they all have voiceless wives.”
— Xenarchus (Grecian poet), quoted in Charles Darwin, Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex (1876).

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

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