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Richard Blais is cooking and eating bugs now.

The celebrity chef and reality TV star has teamed up with pest-control giant Orkin for a new culinary experiment called "Bug Bites," in which he taste-tests an array of edible insects, ranging from ants and mealworms to scorpions and tarantulas.

The digital series, expected to debut on Aug. 19, aims to blend entertainment with a dose of culinary education – and maybe even some viewer squeamishness.

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"I got together with Orkin and one of their entomologists and we decided we were going to go through a progression of tasting different insects," Blais told Fox News Digital from his home kitchen in California.

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