The practice of eating insects, known as entomophagy, is widespread around the world. Abigail Eisenstadt Leafcutter ants can be found across Central and South America. They build gigantic, ...

CHIANG MAI, Thailand - Thais eat more than 150 insects, including crickets, silk worms and dung beetles. Canned crickets are sold in supermarkets, and vendors selling bugs are a common sight in the ...

For his new class at the University of Delaware, professor Michael Crossley wanted to show students the benefits of eating insects, from ground-up crickets to chili paste infused with giant water bugs ...

Just like their mammalian counterparts, many insect species are quite social. Among these social insect colonies, a rather brave sub-Saharan species of termite-eating ant has offered researchers a ...

Bryan Lessard receives funding from the Australian Biological Resources Study. He is supervising PhD student Mark Rullo (CSIRO-University of Adelaide) who is exploring Australia's native edible ...