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Eating bugs to save the planet


by Dana Goodyear

The New Yorker
August 15 & 22, 2011

[Gene DeFoliart, Chair of Etymology at University of Wisconsin] began his talk --- and the paper he eventually published --- with a startling statement: "C.F. Hodge (1911) calculated that a pair of houseflies beginning operations in April could produce enough flies, if all survived, to cover the earth forty-seven feet deep by August."
(p.40)