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 ...

A corn-fed insect could provide North Dakota’s next value-added ag product. An investment firm is developing a plan to bring an insect farm to North Dakota, with protein-rich larvae supplying the ...

Did you know your lipstick might be made from beetles? Or that some cat food may soon be made from flies? People farm insects for all sorts of reasons: Farmers rear bees to pollinate billions of ...

Ÿnsect, the startup building the world’s most high-tech bug colony, has added $224 million in equity and debt to an already impressive $148 million cash haul as it looks to commercialize its business.

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. But just as we are starting to understand insect senses, something is shifting in the ...

DECATUR — InnovaFeed, a French biotechnology company, is building the world’s largest insect farm in Decatur next to ADM’s corn processing plant. Maye Walraven, business development director for ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cell-based shrimps from Shiok Meats; pictured next to cooked insects on a skewer at a street stall. (PHOTO: Shiok Meats, Getty ...

UK-based insect mini-farm innovator, Better Origin, uses artificial intelligence (AI) technology to convert local food waste into high-quality animal feed in the form of insect larvae. It aims to help ...

AMES, Iowa – A farmer notices an unfamiliar insect on a leaf. Is this a pollinator? Or a pest? Good news at harvest time? Or bad? Need to be controlled? Or not? That farmer can snap a picture, use a ...