The 13,000-square-foot space contains multiple rooms stacked with hundreds of boxes, each one home to crickets living through their six-week life cycle. We’re standing inside an old lumberyard in Austin, Texas, that Mott’s company has repurposed into an industrial cricket farm. They get their wings at their final stage.” “You see the one with the wings?” he asks. ![]() ![]() ![]() Gabriel Mott, the chief operating officer of Aspire Food Group, yells above the noise and points inside one of the boxes. Their feed, which sits on top of the cartons on paper plates, looks like a cross between sawdust and sand. The brush of the insects’ legs against the various surfaces sounds like hail on a tin roof. Cardboard boxes filled with egg cartons and sheets of plastic buzz with thousands of young-adult crickets calling out to one another to mate. It’s hard to hear anything over the chirping.
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