Christine Picard’s search for a better bug to feed the world starts with dead bodies. Well, not the corpses themselves, but the blow flies, flesh flies, and other squirmy, wriggly things that wing ...

Source: Steve Nicholls/with permission. Insects are amazing animals. They're all over the place and simply put, their well-being is crucial for the fate of our planet and all other animals, including ...

Akito Y. Kawahara is an associate professor and curator of insects at the Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida. Megan Ennes is an assistant curator of museum education at the ...

Spiders and insects are often considered pests. Some people would rather see the creepy-crawly creatures dead than buzzing ...

Cameras that photograph insects overnight and AI that identifies them are among a new generation of tools that could finally ...

Among rolling vineyards in the south of France lies a farm like no other. Forget cattle and crops, this flagship project from French company Ÿnsect is home to billions of Tenebrio molitor – mealworm ...

The larvae of the Black Soldier Fly (Hermetia illucens) will eat an wide range of food system sidestreams and turn them into nutritious protein and oil. The adult phase is the short-lived, non-biting ...

Insects fed from industrial side-stream waste and then directly consumed as food have the ‘greatest potential to reduce the carbon footprints of European consumers’, claims a new study. It is more ...