


Building a Better Grasshopper Trap: New Design Offers Safer, More Efficient Harvest
In Uganda and neighboring African nations, wild grasshoppers are a delicacy and are commonly harvested for their use as food. A team of researchers has designed a new trap that improves on the traditional model by reducing nontarget bycatch, energy consumption, and use of hazardous materials.

Farm to Trough: How House Flies Could Reduce Waste and Feed Livestock
As the global human population continues to rise, researchers are turning to the potential role insects might play in growing the global food supply. A new study from researchers at […]

Bugs Cafe: The Can’t-Miss Culinary Attraction in Siem Reap, Cambodia
By Laura Kraft This post is the fifth in the “Travel Bug” series by Laura Kraft, a recent graduate from the University of Georgia, who is chronicling her travels in […]

Will Insects Be the Food of the Future? Find Out at ICE 2016
By Florence Dunkel At the 2016 International Congress of Entomology, which will be held September 25-30 in Orlando, Florida, there will be an amazing set of 28 speakers who will […]