“We have to get used to the idea of eating insects.” This proclamation came from, of all people, an insect researcher. Dutch entomologist Marcel Dicke pitched eating bugs in his 2010 TED talk as ...

Ancient teeth and human DNA are revealing a surprising history of insect eating. Modern humans in northern Eurasia appear to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Eating insects is a long-standing culinary tradition for billions of people across the world. With over 2,200 edible species ...

In many new markets, insects are considered ‘novel’ foods. In the European Union, for example, this covers foods not widely ...

More than 2 billion people regularly eat insects — on purpose. They’re a great source of protein for communities around the world and some are considered delicacies reserved for special occasions. And ...

FROM a dark corner of the kitchen, chef Ben Reade pulls out a plastic container that has become home to a giant cockroach. In any other kitchen, such a sight would merit a call to pest control. But ...

A fringe belief that we will soon be forced to eat bugs is clashing with an expert projection that we're headed for food scarcity. In May, Ammon Blair, a senior fellow at the Texas Public Policy ...