Crickets
Insects farming in Scotland
This one-day stakeholder workshop will bring together key organisations from across the would-be insect supply chain to share information and network. Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation – February 7 2019 Info here
The food Neophobia
The present study provides new insights into the acceptance of trying and consuming a novel food (edible insect) and identifies the main determinants driving this when an unfamiliar food product is introduced into a Western culture. In this research a house cricket was incorporated into a common type of jelly sweet. These types of novelty […]
DL Novel Food on Kickstarter
DL Novel Food is the “made in Italy” startup founded by Luca Costamagna and Davide Storino who deals with the intensive production of crickets for the production of flours for animal and human food. Luca and Davide immediately realized that something in the traditional method of insect breeding did not work and that it would […]
Sweet edible insects
A short talk with Samuli Taskila, cofounder of Entis Our first, usual question: how you guys entered in the edible insects world? Our co-founder Antti had read the FAO report on “Edible insects: future prospects for food and feed security” and was looking for opportunities to start a business around this insect trend. We were […]
Nusect: living nutrition
A short talk with Alexander Maroy, founder of Nusect Tell us about Nusect and how you got involved in the insect world I was veterinarian in pigs and poultry and I was looking for another challenge and the owner of this company would like to sell it. I believe in a future for insects so I […]
Crickerita: buying and rearing crickets
This week I decided to start the Crickerita project. Crickerita is the idea that my work group had during the lectures of the course “insects as food and feed”. First thing to do: buy the crickets! In Wageningen there is one large pet-shop that also sells various insects as feed for reptiles and birds, so […]
