The practice of eating insects, known as entomophagy, is widespread around the world. Abigail Eisenstadt Leafcutter ants can be found across Central and South America. They build gigantic, ...

Come along on a guided tour of the strangest animals in Cincinnati's strangest neighborhood, from fungus-eating ants to a ...

Biologist Josh Grinath seized a rare chance to study an ecosystem from top to tiny bottom when a black bear blundered through his Rocky Mountain meadow research plot, gobbling up ants and gnawing on ...

Just like their mammalian counterparts, many insect species are quite social. Among these social insect colonies, a rather brave sub-Saharan species of termite-eating ant has offered researchers a ...

Though insect-eating practices may not be super common in the U.S., we’re in the minority. Most cultures in the world consume insects or other bugs in some form or another, and they can serve as ...

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 ...

Bryan Lessard receives funding from the Australian Biological Resources Study. He is supervising PhD student Mark Rullo (CSIRO-University of Adelaide) who is exploring Australia's native edible ...