When a beetle inspires a story
Interview with M. G. Leonard, author of “Beetle Boy” Can you tell us a bit about the `Beetle Boy’s’ story? The Beetle Boy of the title is Darkus Cuttle, and at the beginning of the book, his father has mysteriously disappeared from an entomology vault at the Natural History Museum in London. He’s sent to […]
Tiny Farms: a network to re-think the edible insects farming
Interview with Daniel Situnayake, founder of Tiny Farms How did you get involved in the edible insects business? Our team was exploring the potential for controlled environment agriculture to reduce the distance between people and their food. We noticed companies starting to design products around edible insects, but the insect supply was very limited. With […]
SeedsAndChips Milan: food meets technology
Info on the official site May 1, 2016Entomofago
The University of Alicante bets on flies
Interview with Yelitza Velasquez, BioFlyTech Tell us about BioFlyTech project Bioflytech is a Technology Based Company of the University of Alicante. Our company develops products and procedures related with the artificial rearing of insects. Bioflytech offers solutions from the Biotechnology to the growing demand of alternative proteins and effective pollinators. Our products are raw materials […]
The edible insects industry needs to meet also a “less-privileged” target
Interview with David Gorge Gordon, The Bug Chef Let’s know about your passion for using edible insects in the kitchen: how did everything start? I became interested in edible insects in the mid-1990s, while researching my book The Compleat Cockroach. Among other things, that book contained brief essays on cockroaches as food and as medicine. […]
