A notably large brood of periodical cicadas will emerge from the underground across parts of the eastern U.S. this spring.

Locust farming has a much smaller impact on the environment than farming cows or chickens. As a result, there is a new push for Westerners to eat bugs. Preparing grasshoppers for consumption is ...

While people in some areas call cicadas locusts, they are not locusts. Cicadas are true bugs, in the order Hemiptera, per the Indiana Department of Natural Resources. Cicadas suck fluids from ...

Desert locusts, a notorious Biblical pest, form some of the largest insect groups in nature and are estimated to threaten the ...

In the case of locusts—the migratory swarming form of certain asocial grasshoppers—their sense of smell is intimately tied to their physical and communal transformation. Certain environmental ...

Locusts boiled in soy sauce and sugar are widely ... Kikuchi knows these are early days, but he is hopeful of establishing a profitable insect brand within three to five years.