Insects are vital to every ecosystem. They pollinate plants, decompose plant and animal matter, and are themselves a source of food. Birds alone are estimated to eat 400 to 500 million tons of ...

A mind-boggling number of bugs are consumed by the Zoo’s insectivores, or insect-eating animals, each week: 121,000 crickets, 150,000 mealworms and 17,000 waxworms, not including thousands of ...

When periodical cicadas emerge, they’re consumed by just about anything that eats insects. Mammals and birds, amphibians and reptiles, and fish all eat cicadas — and benefit from the glut of them.

A segment on “CBS Saturday Morning" spotlighted incorporating bugs into food to combat international food crises and help with climate change activism.

Think Cicadas Are Weird? Check Out Superfans, Who Eat the Bugs, Use Them in Art and Even Striptease FOREST PARK, Illinois (AP) — Mayumi Barrack sees a pair of mating periodical cicadas getting ...

When periodical cicadas emerge, they’re consumed by just about anything that eats insects. Mammals and birds, amphibians and reptiles, and fish all eat cicadas — and benefit from the glut of them.

Body by Bugs: Feeding the Zoo’s Insect-Eating Animals. They’re nutritious, affordable, and always in demand. Learn how staffers prepare and deliver thousands of bugs each week to the animals ...