Would you eat a mealworm? Bob Simpson hopes your answer is yes — or that you’d at least feed some to your chickens. Simpson owns Vermont Mealworm Farm, where he raises roughly 2.4 million of the ...

Quality protein is essential to the healthy growth of any omnivore or carnivore, whether it be pig, poultry, fish, reptile, canine, or human. Soy fills this need, but it has an increasingly large ...

Thar’s money in them thar mealworms! At least that’s what Cavallo Ventures is counting on. The venture capital arm of the Wilbur-Ellis agricultural product distribution firm says it’s providing ...

Mealworms are a healthy, nutritious snack full of protein that help hens lay a lot of eggs. For Joy Waylen, raising worms as chicken feed has become quite easy and very rewarding. She says mealworm ...

A new study published in the Journal of Insects as Food and Feed has revealed that yellow mealworms can serve as an alternative protein source for animals and, possibly, humans. The study comes at a ...

The Seattle area’s only commercial insect farm is home to tens of millions of wriggling creatures at various stages of development. Walls of heavy plastic sheeting and stacked trays help keep ...

GeekWire chronicles the Pacific Northwest startup scene. Sign up for our weekly startup newsletter, and check out the GeekWire funding tracker and VC directory. by Kurt Schlosser on Dec 11, 2020 at ...

GREEN BAY - Of all the ripple effects of the blizzard, nobody could have predicted a mealworm shortage would be one of them. Since Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary issued a plea Tuesday for the public to ...