British firms strive to create a buzz around insect farming

Protein from flies and larvae is taking off, if more for chicken feed than human lunches. But what's bugging the whole sector is a post-Brexit rules snarl-up

Central London is not known for its farms. Yet under railway arches a five-minute walk from London Bridge station is a farm that breeds livestock in their hundreds of thousands every year. But there are no cows or chickens down on Entocycle's farm; it focuses on an altogether different category of livestock - insects.

The business, which was launched in 2016, is now at the forefront of the UK's growing insect farming sector. It sells its patented technology and modular farms across the globe.