How to Build a Mealworm Farm: MealFlour
In this video, Gabby Wimer of MealFlour shows us how to make a simple mealworm farm.
“Kubo’s Crickets”
This award winning short documentary is well worth the 15 minutes. Kubo will be appearing in Season 2 of the Ento Nation podcast.
Finnish Bee Keepers are Selling Bee Drone Larvae as Food
Our friend Anders Engstrom from Bug Burger interviewed some Finnish beekeepers who are finding a place in the edible insects market for drone bee larvae ...
Meet Denver’s First Edible Bug Rancher
Although she’s the state’s only edible-bug farmer, McGill says “more locally raised edible insects are being used in Denver restaurants than in any other city in the nation."
Cricketpocalypse
It was back in ’09. A virus swept through North America, wiping out over half of the commercial cricket farms in existence in just the first blow, killing hundreds of millions of crickets. It was a dark time.
How Farms for Orphans is Changing Lives
Great article on our friend Dr. Amy Franklin and her non-profit organization Farms for Orphans Inc. Farms for Orphans changes the lives of orphans in the DR Congo via insect farming. These children suffer from chronic malnutrition and stunted growth, and even death due to the lack of protein and other essentials for normal human development.
