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 ...

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 ...

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 ...