In the west, we have a cultural distaste for most bugs. We're the land of pesticides, systematically going to great lengths to avoid or get rid of them. Even the word "bug" in everyday vernacular has ...

Daniel Imrie-Situnayake says that cockroaches taste pretty good. He also eats crickets and mealworms, and his favorite insect dish is something called silkworm patties. You can think of them as bug ...

Having been squeamish about insects all my life, my skin crawls when I glimpse my first tray of superworms. Hundreds of yellow and black-tipped larvae, fatter than mealworms, squirm vigorously in a ...

When it comes to environmentally-friendly meat, insects can't be beat. As The Salt reported last year, grasshoppers, crickets, and beetles are four times more efficient at converting grasses into ...