Edible insect company thriving in Auburn
Auburn-based Entosense is offering an online market for edible insects.
The Portland Press Herald reported that sister-brother owners Susan and Bill Broadbent are selling crickets, grasshoppers, ants, beetles, scorpions, tarantulas, housefly pupae and other insects.
Carrying products from other companies as well as their own Entovida line, their offerings include flavored insects from Mexico and Thailand, and they’re working with a local chocolatier on products like milk chocolate-peanut butter cups made with cricket powder.
They opened EntoMarket, an online North American Edible Insect Marketplace, in 2015. The business is profitable and first quarter sales have tripled over last year, the newspaper reported.
Further plans include importing insects, working with Maine farmers, and connecting with restaurants. Bill Broadbent told the newspaper that children are more likely to give bugs a chance than adults: 70% to 80% of them will readily down a grasshopper or cricket, he said, compared with 30% to 40% of adults.
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