Faced with exploding global demand for protein and the growing environmental impact of animal farming, insects are emerging ...

While you might not be eager to chomp chocolate-covered cicadas, edible insects are a part of the human legacy. Dr. Julie Lesnik, Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Wayne State ...

A pupil drying flying termites at their home in Chemorog'ion in Baringo south on May 4,2022. [File, Standard] Remember the grasshoppers you used to chase as a child, or the termites that made you feel ...

Inexpensive to raise and insatiably hungry for trash, black soldier fly larvae are already on the menu for livestock, pets ...

Could the future of food be crawling right under our feet? You read that right. What once triggered an “ew, no way” reaction may soon be the answer to global food insecurity and environmental ...

Joseph Yoon: Maybe it’s a delicacy. Maybe it’s something that we enjoy doing. Maybe we just want to have a butter-fried, chocolate-covered cicada because it’s delicious. Rachel Feltman: If your lawn ...

It’s a nutritious food source packed with proteins, vitamins and healthy fats. It’s also a popular one, consumed annually by more than 2 billion people around the world. Entomophagy, the practice of ...

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Joseph Yoon, chef advocate for the U.N.'s International Fund for Agricultural Development, about how to cook this year's broods. FADEL: So we've got some buzz about ...

Bugs! It's what's for dinner. At least that's the pitch that the University of Minnesota Entomology Department will be making at an event this Saturday, the Great Minnsect Show, that will give the ...