World's largest insect faces extinction: How to save two species of Africa's giant Goliath beetle

One of Africa's giant beetles is just one step away from extinction. New research has found that one species of the enormous ...
Forbes

Our Love For Chocolate May Be Driving Africa’s Largest Insect To Extinction—A Biologist Explains

The destruction of the Goliath beetles’ natural habitats is eroding the delicate balance of the ecosystem that they are critical to maintaining. In the heart of Africa’s rich and diverse landscapes, a ...
The Star

African scientists turn to edible insects to boost food security

In Kenya, institutions such as the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE) and Jkuat are leading studies on insect farming, processing and commercialisation as alternative ...
The Conversation

The first fossil thrips in Africa: this tiny insect pest met its end in a volcanic lake 90 million years ago

Sandiso Mnguni receives funding from the GENUS: DSTI-NRF Centre of Excellence in Palaeosciences (Grant 86073). He is affiliated with the Agricultural Research Council Plant Health and Protection ...

Taxpayers’ cash being used to build insect farm – 2,300 miles away in Africa

Campaigners have criticised taxpayers' money being spent on building an insect farm in Tunisia. Bryant Research, which wants people to eat less meat, said millions is being invested in French firm, ...
The Conversation

Why African farmers should balance pesticides with other control methods

Esther Ndumi Ngumbi is a 2015 Food Security Fellow with the New Voices, Aspen Institute Insect pests cause almost half of the crop losses in Africa. If the continent is to feed its growing population, ...
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World’s largest insect faces extinction: how to save two species of Africa’s giant Goliath beetle

What is the Goliath beetle and why is it so important? The Goliath beetles (genus Goliathus) are among the world’s biggest insects. There are five different species. They grow up to 110mm long; males ...