[shostack]

Cool stuff. I wonder what sorts of health problems we might encounter cramming lots of insects closely together that haven't been encountered in nature yet because they simply did not happen at the scale of a farm.

The good news is that with analytics like this, it is easier to analyze and get to the bottom of it.

My first encounter with cricket farming was in in my high school herpetology club with our cricket tank. I always thought it was pretty cool, albeit loud and stinky. I'm going to take a lateral step from that in the future and likely start a small worm box for my garden. I'd love some sort of soil analytics tool to help me out with that.

[IndianAstronaut]

Many insects serve as vectors to move parasites around. I used to work with parasitic nematodes that rode on clies and other insects to move around. Insect farms would need to take care to not allow these to enter the population.

Also, genetic diversity is an issue. Crickets with little genetic diversity are prone to disease.