More than half of all known animal species on Earth are insects — critters with a hard external skeleton, three pairs of jointed legs, antennae and a body divided into three segments (the head, thorax ...

Source: Steve Nicholls/with permission. Insects are amazing animals. They're all over the place and simply put, their well-being is crucial for the fate of our planet and all other animals, including ...

Insects as a viable animal feed have been receiving increasing recognition due to their high energy and protein content. Since July 2017, EU legislation has been changed and now permits that animals ...

Entomologist Mary Liz Jameson, right, shows Luz Horton which kinds of dung beetles likely live on the land where she and her husband, Jamin Horton, own a bison ranch. Burlingame — Without dung beetles ...

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

Insects fed from industrial side-stream waste and then directly consumed as food have the ‘greatest potential to reduce the carbon footprints of European consumers’, claims a new study. It is more ...