Did you know your lipstick might be made from beetles? Or that some cat food may soon be made from flies? People farm insects for all sorts of reasons: Farmers rear bees to pollinate billions of ...

LANGLEY, British Columbia (Reuters) - Layers of squirming black soldier fly larvae fill large aluminum bins stacked 10-high in a warehouse outside of Vancouver. They are feeding on stale bread, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Besides being big business, insect farms also provide important sources of protein and income for rural households. They can be ...

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. What is the life of a cricket worth? Besides being big business, insect farms also ...

A healthy bat hangs in a cave, resting up to eat its weight in bugs at dusk. Liz Hamrick/TVA Most Americans tend to think ...

A corn-fed insect could provide North Dakota’s next value-added ag product. An investment firm is developing a plan to bring an insect farm to North Dakota, with protein-rich larvae supplying the ...

Fruits and vegetables are often sprayed with fungicides to keep mold at bay. However, new research suggests one of these chemicals could be quietly harming insects that are critical to healthy ...

Entosense, an edible insect company in Lewiston, began farming its own crickets over the past winter, with the goal of eventually replacing its outsourced cricket products with locally raised products ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. All told, trillions of insects are farmed each year across the globe – more than all other livestock combined. Each year, ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) The schools face up to $30 million in cuts to staff and programs in the upcoming ...