Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bugs! It's what's for dinner. At least that's the pitch that the University of Minnesota Entomology Department will be making at ...

In the mid-2010s, we were told the edible insects were about to take off in the U.S. and Europe in a big way. But a decade later, the bug food industry is in turmoil, with start-ups closing down and ...

We recently did a show about the cicada double brood emergence. Billions of the bugs are above ground this year. And the conversation... took a bit of a turn... towards whether they can be eaten.

While many Westerners find the idea of eating beetles or crickets unappetizing, this view is actually a global outlier. For roughly two billion people worldwide, eating insects — known as entomophagy ...

The United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization wants to be clear about its new report released today. “We are not saying that people should be eating bugs,” said Eva Muller, Director of FAO’s ...

You value independent local news, so become a sustainer today to power our newsroom. When Cortni Borgerson thinks about the trillion or so periodical cicadas emerging from underground, she sees more ...

Cicada nymphs in butter and garlic, prepared by entomologist Tad Lankoski, during a demonstration at the Missouri Botanical Garden’s Sophia M. Sachs Butterfly House in Chesterfield, Missouri. Many ...

In the midst of a food allergy epidemic, it is important to be aware of all of the possible allergens that people eat, knowingly or unknowingly. Even in the Western world, we each unwittingly eat ...

Bugs! It's what's for dinner. At least that's the pitch that the University of Minnesota Entomology Department will be making at an event this Saturday, the Great Minnsect Show, that will give the ...

Grist is a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. Edible insects could decarbonize America's food system. But lobbyists, ...