An industry based on insects’ natural recycling abilities could help limit the environmental damage from our food system.

Two of the more widespread pests have been lepidoptera larvae (worms): the fall armyworm and the armyworm. These pests could ...

Maggots love to feed on decaying fruit. New research explains how they found this out and the implications for having texture be such a big deal.

But one British entrepreneur in South Africa believes that maggots, the wriggling larvae of the common house fly (Musca Domestica), is a viable protein-rich alternative to make animal feed. A ...

Several farmers in Fort Portal City have embraced the farming of Black Soldier flies, an agricultural practice that transforms farms into self-sustaining ecosystems ...

BOISE, Idaho - Cow manure. Fish guts. Black soldier fly maggots. It could soon be dinner, if you're an Idaho rainbow trout. University of Idaho and Idaho State University scientists are working on ...

While feeding maggots which surgeons use to cure infected wounds (TIME, Jan. 22, 1934), Dr. William Robinson, of the Government’s Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, remembered fetal ...