Japan's insect-material startups attract swarms of investors

Superflies, spiders and worms create organic solutions to sustainability problems

NANA SHIBATA and RURIKA IMAHASHI, Nikkei staff writers

TOKYO -- Watching millions of squirming insect larvae devour animal manure is a stomach-churning experience, but Japanese startup Musca and its investors see money in the maggots.

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