Insects as a Sustainable, Nutritional Food Source

After spending an entire day investigating whether killer cockroaches were actually extraterrestrial robots in the X-Files episode “War of the Coprophages,” FBI agent Fox Mulder explains to his partner, “I hate insects. … I’m not afraid of them. I hate them.”

Fear them or loathe them, insects are here to stay, and they vastly outnumber humans. Many species keep the numbers of less-than-desirable ones in check, some are beneficial to agriculture, while others a…