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 ...

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 ...

A corn-fed insect could provide North Dakota’s next value-added ag product. An investment firm is developing a plan to bring an insect farm to North Dakota, with protein-rich larvae supplying the ...

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 ...

In a warehouse not far from Paris, 60 million black soldier flies give birth to larvae that are scalded, ground up and used to feed salmon and shrimp. The place doesn’t smell great. Innovafeed SAS is ...

UK-based insect mini-farm innovator, Better Origin, uses artificial intelligence (AI) technology to convert local food waste into high-quality animal feed in the form of insect larvae. It aims to help ...

The Seattle area’s only commercial insect farm is home to tens of millions of wriggling creatures at various stages of development. Walls of heavy plastic sheeting and stacked trays help keep ...

Campaigners have criticised taxpayers' money being spent on building an insect farm in Tunisia. Bryant Research, which wants ...

Loveland resident Amy Franklin found a solution for the hunger and malnutrition besetting Congolese orphanages in a delicacy that thrives in the wild in the African country — the palm weevil. With no ...

DECATUR — InnovaFeed, a French biotechnology company, is building the world’s largest insect farm in Decatur next to ADM’s corn processing plant. Maye Walraven, business development director for ...

These trays of Black Soldier Fly larvae are munching their way through hundreds of pounds of food waste at Singapore’s first insect farm, Insectta. Insectta is farming these insects not for food, but ...

Fruits and vegetables are often sprayed with fungicides to keep mold at bay. However, new research suggests one of these chemicals could be quietly harming insects that are critical to healthy ...