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Uganda: No stings attached – the most delicious honey

Posted by · September 08, 2016 10:39 AM

“Like squeezing honey out of mud! Like magic mud!” The African Stingless Bee in a clip from BUGS the film, currently in cinemas in Denmark and other Nordic countries. Dig deeper →

The multipurpose minilivestock: Stingless Bees get the UN excited

Posted by · September 06, 2016 5:46 PM

Delicious honey with no sting: the perfect bee? Meet our BUG OF THE WEEK. Dig deeper →

Drumming is rainfall for termites

Posted by · March 29, 2016 2:06 PM

When the bugs you want to catch are smaller than a fingernail’s length and live underground, how on earth do you get to them? Harvesting termites looks at first like one of the trickier challenges in entomophagy. Dig deeper →

Plague or plenty? Why the locust is also a prawn of the sky

Posted by · March 17, 2016 9:47 PM

When you consider that the phrase “plague of locusts” is basically shorthand for “really awful”, it might seem that advocates of eating these bugs have a difficult task. But language is an interesting thing. Don’t ‘sky prawns’ sound lovely? Dig deeper →

Stuck underground: the Termite

Posted by · February 28, 2016 11:15 AM

There’s something slightly alien about termites. Their crooked chimney-stack nests protrude like giant earthy fingers from the ground, ingeniously sucking in cool air and so ventilating the underground hive. Dig deeper →

It's all about diversity

Posted by · February 08, 2016 4:44 PM

The UK’s first public Insects for Food and Feed Conference was hosted at the Oxford Martin School. Rebecca Roberts gives us the 'state of the union' in insects as food and feed, and concludes that diversity was the key take-home message. Dig deeper →

Herding grasshoppers

Posted by · February 05, 2016 5:43 PM

‘As difficult as herding cats’, the saying goes – well, try herding grasshoppers. Not only can these guys jump the bug-equivalent of several football fields, but they can actually fly too. Nevertheless, the idea of farming them like a domesticated food source is actually taking off. Dig deeper →

Honey’s boring – how to cook with bee larvae

Posted by · December 20, 2015 12:43 PM

Bee larvae are eaten throughout the world, particularly in southeast Asia but also across the African continent. Dig deeper →

Why drones, not honey, might be the hive's most delicious ingredient

Posted by · December 20, 2015 9:53 AM

BUG OF THE WEEK: the honeybee. Combs of unwanted drone bee larvae are a 'byproduct' of beekeeping - but in some countries they're a delicacy, and eating them could actually help stem the decline of the bees. Dig deeper →

Eating insects is nothing new – but it's also the future. Still, many of us find it disgusting. We’re on a mission to find out more – not to sell you anything. Share our curiosity and join us in exploring a taste of insects!

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