Among a certain kind of food-futurist-nerd, it’s accepted wisdom that crickets and grasshoppers might be the protein source of the next generation. There are 30—thirty!—startups in North America ...

Crickets belong to the order Orthoptera, which also includes grasshoppers and locusts. Maybe people often mistake crickets for grasshoppers, which is easy to understand. These small, cylindrical ...

STORRS, CT -- A food truck at the University of Connecticut is serving up roasted crickets. The Daily Campus reports the university's dining services are advertising the insects as organic, not ...

For his new class at the University of Delaware, professor Michael Crossley wanted to show students the benefits of eating insects, from ground-up crickets to chili paste infused with giant water bugs ...

Introduction -- Australian cricketers -- Biology -- Cricket life cycles and development -- Collecting techniques useful for crickets -- Morphology -- Crickets and culture -- Crickets as food -- ...

To a human, microplastics are very small at less than 5 millimeters (mm) wide. But to an insect, microplastics might be the same size as the food they usually eat. Researchers reporting in the journal ...