People and animals create lots of waste that is usually sent to landfills, incinerated, or stored in engineered ponds such as ...

While many Westerners find the idea of eating beetles or crickets unappetizing, this view is actually a global outlier. For roughly two billion people worldwide, eating insects — known as entomophagy ...

PORT HURON, Mich. – A highly-invasive wood boring bug was intercepted by U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Port Huron. It was discovered March 17 by CBP agriculture specialists at a Port Huron ...

"Viruses in organic wastes have rarely been studied in a systematic way, but our research shows that black soldier fly larvae ...

While they might not win any beauty contests, the black soldier fly larvae (BSFL) are making a massive impact by turning food waste into a nutrient-rich biofertilizer known as frass. No, I'm not ...

Larvae of the invasive elm zigzag sawfly create a distinctive “zigzag” while feeding on elm leaves. The insect has been confirmed in Minnesota for the first time, the state agriculture department ...

You’ve probably seen a hoverfly. It’s a small, bee-like insect that hovers over your flowers in summer. Though they look like tiny bees or wasps, they don’t sting. They’re actually some of the most ...

An industry based on insects’ natural recycling abilities could help limit the environmental damage from our food system. Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript ...

Armando Falcon-Brindis was busy with work at the University of Idaho’s Parma Research and Extension Center last summer when a request came in from an Eagle homeowner to identify the dozens of larvae ...