In recent years, human population growth, coupled with the climate crisis, environmental pressures, and current production ...

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

If you’ve been raised in a Western culture, the thought of eating insects probably makes your stomach curdle. Researchers from Portugal think a free sample might be all it takes to change that.

Learn how ancient dental plaque, Neanderthal comparisons, and chitin-digestion genes show that Europeans rarely ate insects ...

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 ...

We are taught to be careful as children; we are cautioned that wasps will sting us, that flies carry diseases, and that beetles can bite. Even bees are to be treated with caution: their honeyed gifts ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — How far would leaf-eating insects go to dine on their favorite food? Perhaps the other side of the world, according to researchers at Penn State who found insect damage on ...

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 ...

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 ...