Bowls of ants, grasshoppers, ant eggs, white cricket, giant water beetle, bamboo caterpillar and silkworm are arranged at Insects In The Backyard restaurant at Changchui market in Bangkok, Thailand, ...

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.

Singapore's state food agency embodied the phrase "Hakuna Matata" after approving a whopping 16 species of insects for human consumption, ranging from grasshoppers to beetle grubs. BarTa - stock.adobe ...

Despite the initial hype, insect agriculture is facing the economic realities of competing with the traditional meat industry.

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 ...

Last May, I ate bugs for the first time. Not the kind you accidentally swallow when you’re riding a bike — or the hundreds you mythically ingest over a lifetime while you’re sleeping. These were ...

But the past decade has shown that even if you build an insect farm, the global market may not come. Of the 20 or so largest ...

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 ...

Growing up in Thailand’s northeastern Isan region, Suwimon Chantajohn learned from her grandfather which insects were best to eat. Captivated by his stories of surviving on bugs during his military ...