What is the life of a cricket worth? Besides being big business, insect farms also provide important sources of protein and income for rural households. They can be established cheaply, with little ...

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Are insects the future of farming? Researchers in Germany say there are many benefits to bug farming. While insects are consumed by people in cultures around the world, these scientists aren’t farming ...

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 ...

March 20 - In some regions of the world, wild-caught insects have been a valuable source of protein for centuries. However, the mass farming of insects for food and feed is a modern practice. Over the ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State University—in collaboration with two other U.S. universities and more than 30 industrial partners—is leading a $2.2 million National Science Foundation-funded ...

A new study has challenged the environmental case for farming insects, warning of biosecurity risks and the spread of disease. The paper, ‘Have the environmental benefits of insect farming been ...

Will we be eating insects in the future? New Scientist’s Alex Wilkins recently took a look inside Ÿnsect’s huge vertical insect farm in France to see what the future of food might look like and taste ...

Did you know your lipstick might be made from beetles? Or that some cat food may soon be made from flies? People farm insects for all sorts of reasons: Farmers rear bees to pollinate billions of ...

The £1.5 million farm, which has its own chief scientist, aims to produce 3,500 tons of insect protein a year using the black ...

Bob Fischer is on the board of the Insect Welfare Research Society and the Arthropoda Foundation. All told, trillions of insects are farmed each year across the globe – more than all other livestock ...