PRINCETON, New Jersey -- Would you eat a cicada? Some high school students in Princeton, New Jersey are using the Brood X cicada emergence to spread the word about the benefits of eating insects. The ...

They’re nutritious, affordable, and always in demand. Learn how staffers prepare and deliver thousands of bugs each week to the animals living at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation ...

In the new season of “My Strange Addiction,” people are opening up to the unique things they are interested in, including an individual who likes to eat raw meat, and another who eats live insects!

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 ...

Previous research found that insects can ingest and absorb pure, unrefined microplastics -- but only under unrealistic, food-scarce situations. Zoologists have now tested mealworms in a more realistic ...

Crunchy cricket tacos anyone? If the idea sounds stomach-turning, consider new research that shows humans are meant to eat bugs. Well, insects to be exact. Rutgers researchers found that insects were ...

We are taught to be careful as children; we are cautioned that wasps will sting us, that flies carry diseases, and that beetles can bite. Even bees are to be treated with caution: their honeyed gifts ...

If you wake up in the morning and feel itchy in areas such as your hands, ankles, neck, face, arms, or abdomen, and you notice that the bites do not have a red spot in the center like most insect ...

The United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization wants to be clear about its new report released today. “We are not saying that people should be eating bugs,” said Eva Muller, Director of FAO’s ...