Three yellow-and-black beetles clung to the shirt of German Viasus Tibamoso, a Colombian environmental engineer who uses beetle larvae to transform food waste into fertilisers.
As he encouraged them to move along, he murmured to them in Japanese – trying to get them accustomed, he said, to the sounds of their future homes.
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