They’re crunchy with a mild, nutty flavor, and are loaded with protein. But they’re also a little creepy. We’re talking about crickets, which are increasingly coming up as a sustainable snack.

Want to be on the cutting edge of nutritious food trends? Hop on board with insect-eating. A long-held tradition in most of the world, it’s worming its way into the West, via the eco-friendly crowd.

The Cricket Shelter is designed to grow delicious crickets that are both free-range and local–just like we expect for the rest of our food. Walking up to the Cricket Shelter–a new tent-like structure ...

Vietnamese edible insect startup Cricket One – which processes crickets raised by local cassava farmers in abandoned shipping containers that have been kitted out as intensive breeding units - has ...

While the hype over edible insects has died down somewhat over the past couple of years, the demand for so-called ‘alternative’ proteins has not, and if suppliers can develop more efficient farming ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- For centuries, insects have been included in traditional dishes around the world. Latin Americans eat cicadas, ants and even tarantulas, while South Africans put them in porridge.

Entosense, an edible insect company in Lewiston, began farming its own crickets over the past winter, with the goal of eventually replacing its outsourced cricket products with locally raised products ...

According to the United Nations, approximately two billion people across the globe practice entomophagy – the consumption of insects as food. While many Westerners struggle with the idea of ...

The splay-footed cricket is one of the biggest, most scary-looking insects, and it’s been that way for a long, long time. A fossil recently uncovered in Brazil reveals these crickets have looked more ...

Did you know crickets can spin silk webs? Not all crickets, but the raspy cricket spins silk to create a cozy burrow.

People are eating insects for fun, and we want to know why anyone would ever voluntarily put a bug in their mouth. We're not talking about eating them for the wow factor like kids do with scorpion ...