Ask most people about crickets and you’ll probably hear that they’re all pretty much the same: just little insects that jump and chirp. But there are actually dozens of different species of field ...

Growing crickets to make some extra cash requires little space, since the business can be set up in your basement or a small room. To making money you must grow and sell them in large quantities.

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The Aspire Food Group thinks insects could help address food sustainability and insecurity, and it's using tech to make that happen. Erin Carson covered internet culture, online dating and the weird ...

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Crickets are not all that they’re cracked up to be as an alternative, global source of protein in the human diet to supplement or replace livestock consumption, according to newly published research ...

Crickets in Hawaii have started purring like cats—a case of evolution in action. Researchers discovered males of the Pacific field cricket have "a newly evolved song" that is different from all other ...

When it's time to design new robots, sometimes the best inspiration can come from Mother Nature. Take, for example, her creepy, but incredibly athletic spider crickets. Johns Hopkins engineering ...

To a human, microplastics are very small at less than 5 millimeters (mm) wide. But to an insect, microplastics might be the same size as the food they usually eat. Researchers reporting in the journal ...

Crickets plagued much of Texas this summer. And now, as they expire, those cricket corpses—stuck in the walls, ceilings, and elevator shafts of buildings—are causing quite a stench. The bank has ...