“Bobbit Worm”‐Inspired Soft Adaptive Grasper with Self‐Generated Triboelectric Force Sensor by Zhisen Zhu, Keren Dai, Mingchuan Wang, Liangjing Jiang, Leixiang Bian, Wenling Zhang, Yu Tian

“…The MSASG implement fast grasping or releasing action by evaluating pressures of various approaching prey, including hermit crabs, crickets, and beetle, etc. And its sensitivity greater than 0.18 V mN−1. …”
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Australian Consumers’ Awareness and Acceptance of Insects as Food by Kerry Wilkinson, Beverly Muhlhausler, Crystal Motley, Anna Crump, Heather Bray, Rachel Ankeny

“…An online survey of 820 consumers found that 68% of participants had heard of entomophagy, but only 21% had previously eaten insects; witchetty grubs, ants, grasshoppers, and crickets were the most commonly tasted insects. Taste, appearance, safety, and quality were identified as the factors that were most likely to influence consumer willingness to try eating insects, but consumer attitudes towards entomophagy were underpinned by both food neophobia (i.e., reluctance to eat new or novel foods) and prior consumption of insects. …”
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Composition and vertical distribution of agricultural soil Macrofauna community after an extreme high temperature event in the summer of 2022 by Meixiang Gao, Chen Peng, Yaxin Hu, Weixin Liu, Yanyan Ye, Ye Zheng, Ting-Wen Chen

“…However, changes in abundance were taxonomically dependent: individuals of ants (Pheidole indica), centipedes (Himantariidae) and crickets decreased significantly, while Enchytraeidae and earthworms increased. …”
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Insectivorous bats selectively source moths and eat mostly pest insects on dryland and irrigated cotton farms by Heidi Kolkert, Rose Andrew, Rhiannon Smith, Romina Rader, Nick Reid

“…Significant cotton pests such as Helicoverpa punctigera (Australian bollworm) and Achyra affinitalis (cotton webspinner) were detected in at least 76% of bat fecal samples, with Teleogryllus oceanicus (field crickets), Helicoverpa armigera (cotton bollworm), and Crocidosema plebejana (cotton tipworm) detected in 55% of bat fecal samples. …”
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Insects as an alternative protein source for poultry nutrition: a review by Imen Belhadj Slimen, Imen Belhadj Slimen, Houari Yerou, Houari Yerou, Manel Ben Larbi, Naceur M’Hamdi, Taha Najar, Taha Najar

“…The black soldier fly, the housefly, the beetle, mealworms, silkworms, earthworms, crickets, and grasshoppers are in the spotlight because they have been identified as an important future source of sustainable animal proteins for poultry feeding. …”
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A Novel Foodstuff Mixture Improves the Gut–Liver Axis in MASLD Mice and the Gut Microbiota in Overweight/Obese Patients by Rebeca Rosas-Campos, Ana Soledad Sandoval-Rodríguez, Jonathan Samael Rodríguez-Sanabria, Ángel Omar Vazquéz-Esqueda, Carlos Roberto Alfaro-Martinez, Rebeca Escutia-Gutiérrez, Natali Vega-Magaña, Marcela Peña-Rodríguez, José Sergio Zepeda-Nuño, Mauricio Andrade-Marcial, Yolanda Campos-Uscanga, Luis Felipe Jave-Suárez, Arturo Santos, Eira Cerda-Reyes, Mónica Almeida-López, Erika Martínez-López, Luis Alonso Herrera, Juan Armendariz-Borunda

“…Here, we show that supplementation with a mixture of Mexican foodstuffs (MexMix)—<i>Opuntia ficus indica</i> (nopal), <i>Theobroma cacao</i> (cocoa) and <i>Acheta domesticus</i> (crickets)—enriches several beneficial taxa in MASLD mice and overweight/obese humans. …”
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Edible Insects in Latin America: A Sustainable Alternative for Our Food Security by Silvana Abril, Mariana Pinzón, María Hernández-Carrión, Andrea del Pilar Sánchez-Camargo

“…Specifically, ants and crickets can contain between 9 and 77% protein of dry weight, while beef contains between 25 and 28%. …”
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Analysis and Optimization of Low-Resistance Animal Bionic Subsoiling Shovel Based on EDEM by Lei Zhang, Xiaowei Wang, Jianneng Chen, Haiyang Wang, Yonggan Cao

“…Considering the problems of high tillage resistance and high energy consumption in existing subsoiling shovels, the contour-fitting curve characteristics of the front paw toes of mole crickets were applied to the structural design of subsoiling shovels using bionic principles. …”
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Metabarcoding analysis of different portions of the digestive tract of scorpions (Scorpiones, Arachnida) following a controlled diet regime shows long prey DNA half‐life by Yuri Simone, Cátia Chaves, Arie van derMeijden, Bastian Egeter

“…A different type of prey (crickets, mealworms, and cockroaches) was offered once every 3 weeks for a total of 9 weeks. …”
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Potential Nutrient Contribution of Community-Based Insects in Children’s Food in Northern Ghana by Clement Kubreziga Kubuga, Majeed Baako, Jan W Low

“…Methods: Both qualitative and quantitative research methods were concurrently applied in this exploratory study (N = 392 individuals; 6 focus group discussions) in northern Ghana. Results: Termites, crickets, grasshoppers, and caterpillars were recognized as the most prevalent edible insects in communities. …”
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Multiple Identified Neurons and Peripheral Nerves Innervating the Prothoracic Defense Glands in Stick Insects Reveal Evolutionary Conserved and Novel Elements of a Chemical Defense... by Johannes Strauß, Christoph-Rüdiger von Bredow, Yvette M. von Bredow, Konrad Stolz, Tina E. Trenczek, Reinhard Lakes-Harlan

“…The ipsilateral and contralateral subesophageal neurons have no homologs in related taxa like locusts and crickets, and thus evolved within stick insects with the differentiation of the defense glands. …”
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Effect of the Addition of Soybean Protein and Insect Flours on the Quality of Cooked Sausages by Nikolay Kolev, Desislava Vlahova-Vangelova, Desislav Balev, Stefan Dragoev, Krasimir Dimov, Evgeni Petkov, Teodora Popova

“…This study aimed to assess the effect of the addition (2%) of soybean protein (SP) and insect flours derived from house crickets (<i>Acheta domesticus</i>, HCF) and yellow mealworm (<i>Tenebrio molitor</i>, YMF) in cooked sausages. …”
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Investigating the Effect of Disturbance on Prey Consumption in Captive Congo Caecilians <i>Herpele squalostoma</i> by Kimberley C. Carter, Léa Fieschi-Méric, Francesca Servini, Mark Wilkinson, David J. Gower, Benjamin Tapley, Christopher J. Michaels

“…As inappetence is frequently associated with stress in amphibians, the percentage consumption of offered food types, river shrimp (<i>Palaemon varians)</i> and brown crickets (<i>Gryllus assimilis</i>), was measured as an indicator of putative stress following three routine substrate changes up to 297 days post-substrate change. …”
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Sonotopes reveal dynamic spatio-temporal patterns in a rural landscape of Northern Italy by Almo Farina, Timothy C. Mullet, Tursynkul A. Bazarbayeva, Tamara Tazhibayeva, Svetlana Polyakova, Peng Li

“…Sonic activity from bird biophonies increased in March – July during the Day but in August – November greater sonic activity shifted to crepuscular and nocturnal periods with the biophonies from crickets. Sonotopes exhibited spatially unique, dynamic arrangements of patch size and placement depending on the season and astronomical period. …”
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Responses of the human gut microbiota to physiologically digested insect powders or isolated chitin thereof by Gil Refael, Hila Tarazi Riess, Carmit Shani Levi, Faiga Magzal, Snait Tamir, Omry Koren, Uri Lesmes

“…This study interrogated the properties and fermentability of powders from crickets (Acheta domestica), silkworm pupae (Bombyx mori) or isolated chitin. …”
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Affordable Processing of Edible Orthopterans Provides a Highly Nutritive Source of Food Ingredients by Forkwa Tengweh Fombong, John Kinyuru, Jeremiah Ng’ang’a, Monica Ayieko, Chrysantus Mbi Tanga, Jozef Vanden Broeck, Mik Van Der Borght

“…Edible orthopterans (grasshoppers, crickets, and locusts) are major delicacies, especially across sub-Saharan Africa. …”
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Piezoresistive Carbon Nanofiber-Based Cilia-Inspired Flow Sensor by Debarun Sengupta, Duco Trap, Ajay Giri Prakash Kottapalli

“…Evolving over millions of years, hair-like natural flow sensors called cilia, which are found in fish, crickets, spiders, and inner ear cochlea, have achieved high resolution and sensitivity in flow sensing. …”
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The calling songs of some katydids (Orthoptera, Tettigonioidea) from the tropical forests of Southeast Asia by Ming Kai Tan, Jacob Duncan, Rodzay bin Haji Abdul Wahab, Chow-Yang Lee, Razy Japir, Arthur Y. C. Chung, Jessica B. Baroga-Barbecho, Sheryl A. Yap, Fernando Montealegre-Z

“…Katydids produce sound for signaling and communication by stridulation of the tegmina. Unlike crickets, most katydids are known to sing at ultrasonic frequencies. …”
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The development of bionic trends in agricultural mechanics by L. F. Babitskiy, V. Y. Moskalevich, I. V. Sobolevsky

“…Prototype with digging limb of a mole, pink armadillo, mole crickets and rhinoceros beetle have developed a new design cultivator working bodies with teeth on the tines and the rack. …”
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Cupiennius spiders (Trechaleidae) from southern Mexico: DNA barcoding, venomics, and biological effect by Montserrat Padilla-Villavicencio, Gerardo Corzo, Karina Guillén-Navarro, Guillermo Ibarra-Núñez, Iván Arenas, Fernando Zamudio, Elia Diego-García

“…The venom from C. chiapanensis exhibited toxic activity against crickets. Venoms from C. chiapanensis and C. salei caused death in Anastrepha obliqua flies. …”
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