Among a certain kind of food-futurist-nerd, it’s accepted wisdom that crickets and grasshoppers might be the protein source of the next generation. There are 30—thirty!—startups in North America ...

Crickets belong to the order Orthoptera, which also includes grasshoppers and locusts. Maybe people often mistake crickets for grasshoppers, which is easy to understand. These small, cylindrical ...

Singapore has approved 16 species of insects, including crickets, locusts, silkworms and the western honey bee, as food safe for human consumption, amid efforts worldwide to promote the alternative ...

The consumption of edible insects, a common part of the diet of some Asian and Latin American countries, is tentatively ...

ST. LOUIS PARK, Minnesota (WCCO) — A big part of the Minnesota State Fair is the food. A lot of it is deep-fried, sugary goodness. So where do bugs fit into all of that? Believe it or not, the insect ...

Experts say that if people in the United States and Europe can get over the "ick", edible insects could revolutionise food ...

Singapore has approved 16 insects, including grasshoppers, locusts and crickets, as food items, expanding its internationally renowned cuisine. “With immediate effect, SFA will allow the import of ...

For his new class at the University of Delaware, professor Michael Crossley wanted to show students the benefits of eating insects, from ground-up crickets to chili paste infused with giant water bugs ...

To a human, microplastics are very small at less than 5 millimeters (mm) wide. But to an insect, microplastics might be the same size as the food they usually eat. Researchers reporting in the journal ...

There’s an all-hours symphony being performed in a double-wide trailer in Garrard County. The musicians? Thousands of chirping house crickets. TJ Rayhill, the owner of Bluegrass Crickets, conducts ...