How the frenzy over farming insects for food went bust.

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

When it comes to resolving a big global food problem, a new breed of farmers and their financial backers are thinking small. Work on the world's largest fly farm has begun in South Africa after the ...

Insects are strange, wondrous beings. Butterflies can see parts of the light spectrum that are invisible to human eyes and use these ultraviolet patterns to find their way to tasty plants. Moths use ...

The global insect protein industry is expanding rapidly as food producers, aquaculture companies, and pet food manufacturers ...

The NW Ag Show continues on Thursday, Jan. 15 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Friday, Jan. 16 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Oregon State Fairgrounds and Expo Center in Salem. A full slate of speakers is ...

A farmer holds a handful of locusts in Pakistan. Photographer: Asim Hafeez/Bloomberg Raising animals intensively for food is the biggest source of animal cruelty on the planet. It also happens to be a ...