Gillian Spence plunges her hand into a shallow tray of 10,000 writhing mealworms. She comes up with a handful of the inch-long, beige-colored grubs, which squirm over and between her fingers.

These are all phrases used by the Livin Farms Hive Kickstarter project to describe the experience of eating mealworms. For people used to buying food in plastic-wrapped sanitized containers ...

12 in the journal Scientific Reports, researchers found that the lesser mealworms can digest polystyrene, a type of plastic commonly found in Styrofoam food containers and packaging. The team isn ...

Turning Household Waste to Pet Food, Without the Smell - Hatching Time Acquires The Bug Factory Brand from Award-Winning UK Startup BeoBia, Launching Mealworm Growing Kits Hatching Time is excited ...

It takes hundreds of years to biodegrade Styrofoam, and those plastic plates, cups and containers currently ... It turns out mealworms have a taste for Styrofoam. “Mealworms eat Styrofoam ...

There the insects start as eggs lying in trays of food that are stacked vertically in a humidified room. The mealworms then hatch and begin to munch. As the insects grow, the Beta Hatch team ...

“I believe ... young people will find it very natural to make pasta and wok dishes with insects as they today eat sushi,” said Heckmann, standing next to trays of mealworms stacked on top of ...

The trays are filled with the factory’s raw material: billions of Tenebrio molitor beetle larvae, commonly known as mealworms. This automated mealworm nursery and slaughterhouse is the blueprint ...

This month, a groundbreaking European Union regulation has officially opened the door to a new culinary adventure by allowing mealworm powder in various food products, such as bread, pasta ...

Would you like some meaty, savory mealworm powder seasoning with your food? It’s a question you might soon be hearing at the dinner table, or at least that’s the hope of scientists at South ...

In today’s world, where every step toward sustainability counts, this acquisition marks a bold move toward achieving Hatching Time’s goals. "We want to offer sustainable solutions for backyard ...