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 ...
PORT HURON, Mich. – A highly-invasive wood boring bug was intercepted by U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Port Huron. It was discovered March 17 by CBP agriculture specialists at a Port Huron ...
Larvae of the invasive elm zigzag sawfly create a distinctive “zigzag” while feeding on elm leaves. The insect has been confirmed in Minnesota for the first time, the state agriculture department ...
While they might not win any beauty contests, the black soldier fly larvae (BSFL) are making a massive impact by turning food waste into a nutrient-rich biofertilizer known as frass. No, I'm not ...
Armando Falcon-Brindis was busy with work at the University of Idaho’s Parma Research and Extension Center last summer when a request came in from an Eagle homeowner to identify the dozens of larvae ...
Even Antarctica’s toughest native insect can’t escape the reach of plastic pollution. Scientists have discovered that Belgica antarctica — a tiny, rice-sized midge and the southernmost insect on Earth ...
An industry based on insects’ natural recycling abilities could help limit the environmental damage from our food system. Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript ...