On a sprawling site an hour north of Paris in the French city of Amiens, a new vertical farm now under construction won’t be growing lettuce or vegetables. Instead, it will soon begin raising hundreds ...

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 ...

“We have to get used to the idea of eating insects.” This proclamation came from, of all people, an insect researcher. Dutch entomologist Marcel Dicke pitched eating bugs in his 2010 TED talk as ...

Christine Picard’s search for a better bug to feed the world starts with dead bodies. Well, not the corpses themselves, but the blow flies, flesh flies, and other squirmy, wriggly things that wing ...

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 ...

Insect farming startup Ynsect has secured more funding as it expands globally and looks to prioritize higher-value food for pets and humans. The French company closed a €160 million, or $175 million, ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover women social entrepreneurs, peace builders and change agents. When in 2017, Mante Sidlauskaite, founded her ...

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 ...

The topics of insect cognition and sentience are highly controversial and hotly debated. 1 I recently read an essay by insect sentience experts Helen Lambert, Angie Elwin, and Neil D’Cruze called ...

Entosense, an edible insect company in Lewiston, began farming its own crickets over the past winter, with the goal of eventually replacing its outsourced cricket products with locally raised products ...