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 ...

What Does a Mayfly Insect Look Like? If you’ve ever seen a reedy-looking bug with two long, antenna-looking protrusions from its abdomen, you might have seen a mayfly. Mayflies have thin bodies and ...

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 ...

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 ...

We are often told that something we can do to fight climate change, is to eat less meat or dairy. While there are certainly greenhouse gas issues with animal production, it is not that simple. But ...