A "cricket" is an insect, but it also may be a footstool. The cricket (footstool) was usually no more than 12 inches high. It was used as a seat for very young children in school or as a foot rest.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The author's baby eating a cricket.Courtesy of Tiffany Leigh I'm a food writer and will try anything at least once, including ...

Growing up in Thailand’s northeastern Isan region, Suwimon Chantajohn learned from her grandfather which insects were best to eat. Captivated by his stories of surviving on bugs during his military ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Growing up in Mexico City, it was common for Jose Avila to snack on the edible bugs at the markets around town with his grandma and mom after school. So, the ...

Insects are swarming the menu at a new restaurant in London. Owners say plating up bugs with scrumptious seasonings will help people and the planet. At the world’s first bug-based restaurant, if it’s ...

KISUMU, Kenya, Sept 27 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - It used to be that two sorts of people in this part of western Kenya ate crickets: the hungry, and singers who believed consuming the chirping ...

Most chefs work with butter, herbs and maybe a little spice. Alexandra Lambert works with crickets — and loves every minute of it. As an entomologist at the Audubon Insectarium in New Orleans, Lambert ...

For six years now, Sarah Schlafly has been working to make crickets a popular protein choice for people. Her Mighty Cricket, founded in 2018, initially focused on persuading consumers that cricket ...

To a human, microplastics are very small at less than 5 millimeters (mm) wide. But to an insect, microplastics might be the same size as the food they usually eat. Researchers reporting in the journal ...