BugNuggets

…or why you should be eating insects

   May 22

Which insects are edible? (part 1)

Of course, you could watch the Bush Tucker Man or Bear Grylls on the Discovery Channel and make a note every time they gobble up an insect – be it a grub or a spider or a handful of ants. But there are in fact lists of edible insects published online. Yeay!

Here’s one for starters, from a rather credible source: Gene DeFoliart, now retired member of the entomology faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Personally, I’d like my edible butterflies a bit more colourful, so they’d really stand out in a salad or as a garnish on any plate of nouvelle-cuisine-with-a-twist. But there you have it, at least those bland butterflies are edible and nourishable. Get your butterfly nets out — happy hunting!

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