This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. What is the life of a cricket worth? Besides being big business, insect farms also ...

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 ...

They did it under cover of darkness: mothers, fathers, grandparents, children. Only at night are the locusts still and silent, their thick, yellow bodies roosting on whatever trees, crops, and grasses ...

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For insect protein start-ups catering to humans rather than animals, combatting this reluctance is a major goal. “To lead them to diversify their daily protein consumption and truly make insects a ...

Modular insect farming technology has been developed for food businesses to upcycle organic waste on-site into a sustainable protein alternative. Far too much food intended for human consumption never ...

DOLE, France (Reuters) - Growing global demand for food is putting a squeeze on available land and one French startup says it has the answer: indoor insect farming. Ynsect raised $224 million from ...

The world has a poop problem. A big one. By 2030, it will be a 3.7 billion-tonnes-a-year problem, and that’s just accounting for faeces produced by farmed animals. This, by any measure, is a lot of ...