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 ...

Get to know the bat-eared fox, an insect-eating creature found in the grasslands and savannas of Africa (and also the Smithsonian’s National Zoo.) Mike Bock This peculiar-looking canine lives in the ...

PRINCETON, New Jersey -- Would you eat a cicada? Some high school students in Princeton, New Jersey are using the Brood X cicada emergence to spread the word about the benefits of eating insects. The ...

Have you ever seen a dog or cat nibble grass from the lawn? Many household pets, as well as birds, bees, lizards, elephants, and chimpanzees in the wild, sometimes eat things that cure their illnesses ...

Eating insects is not a common practice in many cultures, but research indicates that it could be a good source of nutrition and even improve gut health. Phys.org tells us that Tiffany Weir, an ...

Cicada nymphs in butter and garlic, prepared by entomologist Tad Lankoski, during a demonstration at the Missouri Botanical Garden’s Sophia M. Sachs Butterfly House in Chesterfield, Missouri. Many ...

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

More than 220 million years ago, as early dinosaurs were just getting their legs under them, the first mammals evolved from a group of tiny, weasel-like reptiles called cynodonts. New research hints ...