Mealworms on the premises of the start-up company Alpha Protein. Based in Germany's Bruchsal, the start-up is trying to breed mealworms as animal feed by repurposing food waste. Anna Ross/dpa Startups ...

After failing to convince Europeans to swap steaks for cricket pasta, insect producers have turned to the animal feed market as their next big hope. The problem is that industry watchers are ...

Lettie Head is only 19, but has nearly died twice in the past two years from blood poisoning caused by an anti-biotic-resistant bug she picked up in hospital. She hadn’t even been ill in the first ...

A furious centipede bites off a spider's leg. The spider slowly dies as those who bet on the centipede cheer. This is just one of scores of bug-fighting videos accessible to anyone on a Japanese ...

Experts say that if people in the United States and Europe can get over the "ick", edible insects could revolutionise food ...

Superbug versions of common food poisoning bacteria have been found in farm animals across Britain, government scientists warn. The new and potentially deadlier strains of E.coli and salmonella are ...

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 ...

LONDON (Reuters) - After centuries of selective breeding of animals and plants to maximise yields in agriculture, bugs are getting the same treatment, as demand for insect protein grows. British start ...

A bloodsucking insect is being used to collect blood samples from animals at zoos, London Zoo has said. Kissing bugs crawl onto the animal and release a pain-reducing enzyme as they bite and suck the ...