“We have to get used to the idea of eating insects.” This proclamation came from, of all people, an insect researcher. Dutch entomologist Marcel Dicke pitched eating bugs in his 2010 TED talk as ...

A farmer holds a handful of locusts in Pakistan. Photographer: Asim Hafeez/Bloomberg Raising animals intensively for food is the biggest source of animal cruelty on the planet. It also happens to be a ...

Evolving views on food are challenging traditional diets — and not just for humans. Innovative dining options are also being added to the menus of our pets. Startups have proposed numerous new ways to ...

LANGLEY, British Columbia (Reuters) - Layers of squirming black soldier fly larvae fill large aluminum bins stacked 10-high in a warehouse outside of Vancouver. They are feeding on stale bread, ...

The NW Ag Show continues on Thursday, Jan. 15 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Friday, Jan. 16 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Oregon State Fairgrounds and Expo Center in Salem. A full slate of speakers is ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. But just as we are starting to understand insect senses, something is shifting in the ...

Insects are vital biological resources that support ecosystems and human societies. Nearly one-third of global food production relies on insect pollination, ...

The topics of insect cognition and sentience are highly controversial and hotly debated. 1 I recently read an essay by insect sentience experts Helen Lambert, Angie Elwin, and Neil D’Cruze called ...

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — With insect farming projected to produce millions of tons of insects in the coming years, Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station researchers offer evidence that the insect ...

Did you know your lipstick might be made from beetles? Or that some cat food may soon be made from flies? All told, trillions of insects are farmed each year across the globe – more than all other ...