Their taste immediately transports me back to nights spent drinking mezcal and eating orange slices dusted with worm salt in Mexico City. The mixiote has a rich pasilla chile flavor and the meat ...

Two Guatemalan pilots and a Mexican agronomist engineer have died after their plane crashed in southern Mexico near the border with Guatemala as they freed sterile flies meant to stop the spread of sc ...

Tequila never includes a worm, but mescal can. It’s a marketing tactic that nods to Mexico’s strong culture of eating insects (the country is home to more than 400 edible species). Anne ...

THE USDA IS TAKING A The United States has banned all livestock imports from Mexico due to the rapid spread of screw worm disease, which could lead to increased meat prices in the short term.

The worm's fate has turned. The Mexican government decided a few weeks ago to change direction on new standards for the country's mescal liquor. But saving the larvae's job will cost their lives.

The DNA was compared to 63 different species of insects that the researchers had on their short list, taken from species of worms that have been known to be consumed in Mexico. Many species have ...