Would you eat a mealworm? Bob Simpson hopes your answer is yes — or that you’d at least feed some to your chickens. Simpson owns Vermont Mealworm Farm, where he raises roughly 2.4 million of the ...

With the world’s human population continuing to grow, there’s a risk that food supplies could one day fall behind demand. But don’t worry, scientists have found a new slimy, wriggling source of ...

Dolton-Calumet City Elementary School District 149 has informed parents a mealworm was found this week on a middle school table where students were eating lunch. Rumors circulated on social media of ...

Plastic, long considered nonbiodegradable and one of the biggest contributors to global pollution, might have met its match: The small, brownish, squirmy mealworm. Researchers have learned that the ...

AARHUS, Denmark (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Fancy starting your morning with some grub granola? Or having a wrap for lunch made with insect flour? How about ending the day with stir-fried or ...

Time-lapse video of a mealworm pupa shedding its shell and transforming to a beetle. #Mealworm #Pupa #Beetle ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Alex Ledsom is a France-based contributor who covers travel. With worries over food security and rising prices and mouths to feed, ...

Yellow mealworm is soon to appear on European menus, in bars, smoothies and burgers, after the EU decided that they are safe for human consumption. It’s just the first insect that will be hitting ...

Mealworm protein didn't cause obese mice to lose weight, but their rate of weight gain slowed relative to mice consuming high-fat diets with casein. And the benefits went further than that. "It's not ...