The study of α-amylase inhibitors and digestive enzymes in insect larvae offers crucial insights into insect physiology and crop protection. Insect larvae rely on α-amylase to hydrolyse starch, a ...

Analyses of amber show that insect larvae were already using a wide variety of tactics to protect themselves from predators 100 million years ago. Analyses of amber show that insect larvae were ...

BURBANK, Calif. -- Tim Plunkett, of Woodland Hills, takes turmeric to reduce inflammation, but a recent report on what else might be in the bottle turned his stomach. "The sample that they found, I ...

The majority of dietary fat in human diets comes from animal products. Yet animal agriculture is responsible for 14.5% of all anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs), and therefore is often not ...

How insects, AI, and digital twins are transforming agricultural waste into sustainable animal feed at industrial scale.

A small-scale solution to food waste transforms scraps into high-protein animal feed and fertilizer using black soldier flies ...

Insects are strange, wondrous beings. Butterflies can see parts of the light spectrum that are invisible to human eyes and use these ultraviolet patterns to find their way to tasty plants. Moths use ...