Crickets, family Gryllidae (also known as "true crickets"), are insects related to grasshoppers and katydids (order Orthoptera). They have somewhat flattened bodies and long antennae. Crickets are ...

At Linger restaurant in Denver, a chef tosses black ants with white rice and tops a wok-fried heap of vegetables with diced crickets and grasshoppers. The result — a dish called Sweet and Sour ...

The splay-footed cricket is one of the biggest, most scary-looking insects, and it’s been that way for a long, long time. A fossil recently uncovered in Brazil reveals these crickets have looked more ...

Milled whole cricket powder is probably the best known bug-derived food ingredient aside from red food color carmine. But what other delights might edible insects yield for food formulators? Elaine ...

Entomophagy, or eating insects, is a practice that dates back to prehistoric times. Crickets are one of the most common insects people consume. Products containing cricket protein have grown in ...