Possibly one of the most terrifying flying insects that you’re ever likely to encounter is the Asian giant hornet (Vespa mandarinia). Asian giant hornets have a wingspan of around three inches and a ...

In northern France, two companies compete to build the world’s largest insect farms. A facility that sprawls across 35,000 square meters in Nesle will produce 15,000 metric tons of protein from fly ...

Giant giant peacock moth on branch. About 300 million years ago, insects were scales larger than they are today: a shudder-inducing thought for anyone with entomophobia. Griffinflies, for instance, ...

On a sprawling site an hour north of Paris in the French city of Amiens, a new vertical farm now under construction won’t be growing lettuce or vegetables. Instead, it will soon begin raising hundreds ...

Black soldier fly larvae have been enjoying a series of breakout moments. On Nov. 5, Oberland Agriscience, a Nova Scotia-based company, announced that it had opened a 108,000-square-foot BSFL farm on ...

To use this evidence, investigators typically must grow the larvae until adulthood in a laboratory setting and then identify ...

In a warehouse not far from Paris, 60 million black soldier flies give birth to larvae that are scalded, ground up and used to feed salmon and shrimp. The place doesn’t smell great. Innovafeed SAS is ...