WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — The agriculture industry is working to get control of the bird flu outbreak, and Kansas could be at the forefront of a solution. Researchers at Kansas State University say the ...

Mealworms are part of the population of edible insects. Their consumption is embraced in Asia and parts of Europe. Mealworms are packed with nutrients, especially protein. This nutritious delicacy is ...

Would you eat a mealworm? Bob Simpson hopes your answer is yes — or that you’d at least feed some to your chickens. Simpson owns Vermont Mealworm Farm, where he raises roughly 2.4 million of the ...

Serbian scientists at Belgrade’s Institute for Biology are developing a novel way to combat plastic waste by training mealworms to digest polystyrene, a common but persistent material used in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Alex Ledsom is a France-based contributor who covers travel. With worries over food security and rising prices and mouths to feed, ...

With the world’s human population continuing to grow, there’s a risk that food supplies could one day fall behind demand. But don’t worry, scientists have found a new slimy, wriggling source of ...

Plastic, long considered nonbiodegradable and one of the biggest contributors to global pollution, might have met its match: The small, brownish, squirmy mealworm. Researchers have learned that the ...

Yellow mealworm is soon to appear on European menus, in bars, smoothies and burgers, after the EU decided that they are safe for human consumption. It’s just the first insect that will be hitting ...