Most farmers go to great lengths to keep insects at bay. For a growing cadre of livestock and fish producers though, bugs have never been so welcome.
Despite the appearance of some insect-based foods on store shelves—protein bars and tortilla chips made from crickets, for instance—creepy-crawlies are still a little distasteful for most.
Image: Eat up: A petri dish of mealworms, one of the livestock food sources being developed by the French company Ynsect. - http://www.technologyreview.com/