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It’s time to retire the stereotype of insects as “creepy, crawly pests.” Insects have been around for over 350 million years, longer than dinosaurs and flowering plants. More than one... READ MORE
Entomology And The Ethical Treatment Of Insects
Entomology is a branch of zoology that focuses on the scientific study of insects, and entomologists often collect insects for research purposes. One of the objectives of collecting insects is... READ MORE
Profiling Consumers Who Are Ready to Adopt Insects as a Meat Substitute in a Western Society
...likely to adopt insects. Food neophobia makes the largest contribution to consumers’ readiness to adopt insects: a one-unit increase in the food neophobia score is associated with a 84% decrease... READ MORE
Out Of The Wild: Farmed Insects Are Coming
Most animals on earth are insects. In fact, 99% of the brains on earth may belong to invertebrates. And not all insects are pests — some are extremely beneficial to humans,... READ MORE
‘Minilivestock’: Is Farming Insects A Solution To Agriculture’s Problems?
...the arguments for using insects as our main source of protein, rather than other animals or plants. The researchers attest that ‘minilivestock’, or farming insects rather than cows, pigs, or... READ MORE
Eating Insects: How The Trend Might Spread
...insects are generally able to convert nutrients into protein at a better ratio than other animals, and therefore many scientists have posited that eating insects instead of the usual animals... READ MORE
Sentience Of Adult Versus Juvenile Insects
...lifespan. In other words, if adult insects are more sentient and can suffer more than immature insects, then we should prioritize improvements to the lives of insects in their adult... READ MORE
Eating Insects: Cultural Differences, And The Sushi Comparison
...the world have eaten insects for millennia, but other cultures view them as too disgusting to eat. Why do people eat insects, and what issues exist that make the practice... READ MORE
Eating Insects And The Ick Factor
...mealworm products, many unwilling tasters commented that eating insects did not appeal to them because they did not consider insects to be food. Willing tasters mentioned potential benefits of eating... READ MORE
Insects, Pain, And Robotics
Insects are widely used as model organisms for the study of animal behavior, genetics, molecular biology, and other issues. Yet the welfare of insects is only rarely discussed. This paper,... READ MORE
Insects – What Does The Future Hold For Them?
...of animal welfare and rights. Could the same work for insects? Imagine the case of the rearing of insects for feed or food, scaled up… Millions of dollars have already... READ MORE
Insects: The Hidden Extinction
The world is undergoing a dramatic loss of animal species, and perhaps no class is in greater peril than insects. Though small, insects are incredibly important animals. Not only are... READ MORE
Social Insects, Communication, And Learning
...fact that learning definitely affects whether social insects produce or rely on signals, very little is currently known about whether insects learn about the meaning and value of the signal... READ MORE
How Insects Adapt To Human Environmental Changes
Insects, though tiny and numerous, are invaluable organisms to the world’s ecology, and any disruption of their behavior (or numbers) will likely have major effects. The changes that humans make... READ MORE