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They play essential roles in pol- lination, combatting unwanted agricultural pests, recycling or- ganic matter, feeding fish, birds and bats, and much more. They're the most numerous and diverse animals on Earth and form the base of many terrestrial and aqua- tic ecosystems. Our admiration for these critters goes beyond their ability to adapt, their fantastically diverse colours and shapes, and their accomplish- ments that create dramatic impacts on our world's functioning. Could the same six-legged creatures that form the backbone of ecosystem services also help minimize humanity's environ- mental footprint? Could insects revolutionize the way we eat and produce food? We will be nine billion people on Earth in 2050. To feed that many, we should double food production, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organiza- tion. But the way we currently produce food weighs heavily on the environment. If food were a country, it would rank third behind China and the U.S. as one of the largest green- house gas emitters. We eat too much meat, and its production is disastrous from an environment- al standpoint. In Canada, we're struggling to curb water pollution related to corn and soybean pro- duction for livestock feed, and aquaculture relies on wild-caught fish to produce meal and oil feed- stock. Although vegetarian diets would suffice to feed humans and dras- tically reduce our environmental footprint, meat consumption remains a firmly established trad- ition. But if we bartered beef, pork or chicken for a handful of insects, the environmental impact of our animal-protein intake would drop dramatically. According to the FAO, 18 per cent of all green- house gas emissions are linked to animal husbandry. Emissions from insect production are neg- ligible in relation to the amount of protein produced. Insects are especially effective at converting their food because they're cold- blooded and therefore waste less energy to keep warm. Although few people in Can- ada have integrated insects into their regular diet, nearly half of us have tasted an insect, according to a survey conducted in Quebec. According to the study, males are significantly more likely than fe- males to bite into an insect like a fly larva! To reduce our environmental footprint, not everyone needs to incorporate these crisp, deli- cious arthropods into their diet. Changing the diet of farmed ani- mals could also help. People who may not want to ingest insects themselves would likely have little problem feeding their pets insect-containing kibble, or eat- ing farmed animals like chickens raised on insect-based feeds. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has already licensed fly larvae to feed farmed salmon and chickens. (Full disclosure: My suggestion to use insects to feed carnivores like salmon inspired a company in which I have invested that harvests insects grown on food waste.) Emerging entotechnologies (from the Greek root entomo, for "insects") bring together applica- tions that focus on what insects do best. For example, organic residues can be fed to fly larvae, which can then be used as live- stock feed. Black soldier fly larvae have voracious appetites for fruit and vegetable residues and could help improve the way we handle this high-quality organic waste. It's a way to give a second life to stale food, rather than sending it to compost bins or biogas plants. Considering nearly 45 per cent of fruit and vegetables produced worldwide is wasted, this is not a fringe idea. After feeding the hungry with the highest quality unsold por- tions of our food, we could feed our breeding animals with insects raised on organic residues from grocery stores and restaurant kitchens. With clean organic residues from urban agriculture, we could also feed humans! In Montreal, the Blanc de Gris farm grows grey oyster mushrooms on recovered coffee and brewery residues. But we can take it even further. Sev- eral tonnes of mycelium (akin to the "roots" of fungi mixed with growth substrate) are discarded from the company's mushroom production each year. A research project by the David Suzuki Foundation, Montreal Biodome, Concordia University, Univer- sité du Québec à Montréal and Université Laval is finding out if mealworms could grow on this mycelium. The first results are promising. In fact, entotechnology and entomophagy (eating insects) research is blooming in Canada. You can join the research on ed- ible insects by participating in a survey by Concordia University PhD student Didier Marquis.