Edible Insects Breeding
BSF rearing substrates
In animals, the regulation of food intake and post-ingestion mechanisms are two important and strategic aspects to ensure optimal performance and healthy conditions. An italian study addresses this issue by investigating how the BSF larval midgut adapts to diets with different nutrient content. Downoload the study here: Bonelli et al., 2020 – Black soldier fly Larvae […]
Edible insects at EU Parliament
The document “What if insects were on the menu in Europe” – made by EPRS | European Parliamentary Research Service Authors: Nera Kuljanic with Samuel Gregory-Manning, Scientific Foresight Unit (STOA) – is prepared for, and addressed to, the Members and staff of the European Parliament as background material to assist them in their parliamentary work. […]
Edible insects market in Europe
IPIFF recently released a very interesting factsheet about the edible insects market in Europe. Production, market and companies size, investments, consumers reached, maket share, forecasts and many more informations about the industry. Download the full document here: IPIFF-edible-insects-market-factsheet
BeoBia on Kickstarter
BeoBia will launch Re_ (the insects growing pod) on July 7th. We asked Thomas Constant – Beobia founder- to describe the product: Re_ is an urban insect growing pod, empowering you to Reduce your carbon footprint Reuse your food waste and Rethink your relationship with food. Enabling the public to create their own source of […]
Mikrokosmos Berlin
Interview with Nicole Sartirani, founder of Mikrokosmos Berlin Hi Nicole, tell us how you got in contact with the edible insects world Good morning everybody. The travel into my Mikro-Kosmos began in 2017. Working in gastronomy I started to worry more and more about quality and provenience of the food I could find in Berlin. My […]
Insects to Feed the World 2020
Dear colleagues, It is with great pleasure and pride that the new organizing committee invites you to attend the 3rd International Conference Insects to Feed the World 2020. The conference continues its journey across the continents and will be held this time in North America in the beautiful city of Québec from June 2-6 2020. […]