Insects live in nearly every habitat, and it’s estimated that there are currently 10 quintillion insects on the globe. So far ...

Researchers have discovered that insects' sense of smell evolved from ancient taste genes, rewriting evolutionary history.

They’re nutritious, affordable, and always in demand. Learn how staffers prepare and deliver thousands of bugs each week to the animals living at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation ...

Western dislike of eating insects may be linked to ancient geography, genetics, and long-term diet patterns, not just culture ...

Are insects really declining as badly as previous studies have forecasted? This is what a recent study published in Science hopes to address as an international team of more than a dozen researchers ...

For decades, researchers have tried to understand how insect wings evolved. It seemed that none of the proposed explanations was complete. Now the question may finally have been answered. Using data ...

Cargill and French-based InnovaFeed extended their strategic partnership to bring sustainable, novel feed options to additional segments of the animal nutrition industry. Initially, their ...

Insects 100 million years ago. There was a range of insects living alongside the dinosaurs in Australia. At a place called Koonwarra in Australia many 115 + million year old insects have been ...

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 ...

Bug zappers have long been touted as one of the most effective and affordable forms of pest control. In reality, most of them ...