They’re nutritious, affordable, and always in demand. Learn how staffers prepare and deliver thousands of bugs each week to the animals living at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation ...

Cicadas aren’t harmful or toxic to dogs, so eating one or two is okay. But don't let your pets go crazy. If they eat too many, your dog or cat may experience gastrointestinal issues similar to what ...

Periodical cicadas are picky eaters, but many other creatures gladly gobble them up. Here's what to know about the "movable feast" arriving this month. Over a trillion of the loud, buzzing insects ...

This spring two broods of periodical cicadas will pour out of the ground for a weeks-long stint of mating and egg laying across swaths of the eastern half of the U.S. The bugs are large and loud—but ...

Eating one's own offspring, or filial cannibalism, is widespread in the animal kingdom. This phenomenon has been recorded in ...

Get to know the bat-eared fox, an insect-eating creature found in the grasslands and savannas of Africa (and also the Smithsonian’s National Zoo.) Mike Bock This peculiar-looking canine lives in the ...

Researchers from the University of Florida Emerging Pathogens Institute and Texas A&M University recently gathered their resources to investigate the potential of vector-borne transmission of Chagas ...

Toward the end of 2024, the Biden administration’s Department of Agriculture granted $11.8 million to InnovaFeed, a French company dedicated to using insects to feed crops, animals, and people. The ...