In the mid-2010s, insects were hailed as the future of food — a way to sustainably feed the world’s growing human population ...

Despite the initial hype, insect agriculture is facing the economic realities of competing with the traditional meat industry.

For their first attempt at making food from insects, Sean Warner and Patrick Pittaluga started with a bug burger. Their patty, which combined black beans with black soldier fly larvae, was cooked up ...

A Dec. 11 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows a portion of a news release from Tyson Foods detailing its new partnership with Protix, an insect ingredients company. "Tyson foods replacing ...

The Autumn 2014 issue of Earth Island Journal tells of a South African company constructing an enormous "fly farm." This facility would use food waste to produce fly larvae which would then be fed to ...

Inexpensive to raise and insatiably hungry for trash, black soldier fly larvae are already on the menu for livestock, pets and, maybe soon, people Black soldier fly larvae grow in a high-tech facility ...

Humans like to think we’re at the top of the food chain, but these insects don’t care. The human body isn’t just home to organs, bones, and a questionable diet, it can also be a cozy Airbnb for some ...

A new environmentally friendly waste management approach that uses black soldier fly larvae has been developed by a team from China’s Fudan University. Typically, waste from both people and animals is ...