In the mid-2010s, insects were hailed as the future of food — a way to sustainably feed the world’s growing human population ...

People and animals create lots of waste that is usually sent to landfills, incinerated, or stored in engineered ponds such as ...

For their first attempt at making food from insects, Sean Warner and Patrick Pittaluga started with a bug burger. Their patty, which combined black beans with black soldier fly larvae, was cooked up ...

A Dec. 11 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows a portion of a news release from Tyson Foods detailing its new partnership with Protix, an insect ingredients company. "Tyson foods replacing ...

While many Westerners find the idea of eating beetles or crickets unappetizing, this view is actually a global outlier. For roughly two billion people worldwide, eating insects — known as entomophagy ...

Inexpensive to raise and insatiably hungry for trash, black soldier fly larvae are already on the menu for livestock, pets and, maybe soon, people Black soldier fly larvae grow in a high-tech facility ...

The Autumn 2014 issue of Earth Island Journal tells of a South African company constructing an enormous "fly farm." This facility would use food waste to produce fly larvae which would then be fed to ...

Have you ever thought what our planet would be like without insects? Truth be told our planet needs insects just as much as we humans do. Without insects that are great for helping to break down and ...