EDIBLE INSECTS
ENTOMOPHAGY
ENTOMOPHAGE




ENTOMOPHAGY

ETHNOENTOMOLOGY

HOW TO IDENTIFY EDIBLE INSECTS

EDIBLE INSECTS RELATED TOPICS

INSECTS FOR FOOD AND FEED

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ENTOMOPHAGY




Entomophagy is the consumption of insects as food. The eggs, larvae,
pupae and adults of certain insect species have been eaten by man
since prehistoric times and continue to be an item of the human diet
in modern times. While insects are eaten by many animals, the term
"entomophagy" is generally used to refer to human consumption of
insects; animals that eat insects are known as insectivores. There
are also some species of carnivorous plants that derive nutrients
from insects.

Human insect-eating is common to cultures in most parts of the world,
including North, Central and South America; and Africa, Asia, Australia
and New Zealand. Over 1,000 species of insects are known to be eaten in
80% of the world's nations. However, in some societies insect-eating is
uncommon or even taboo. Today insect eating is rare in the developed
world, but insects remain a popular food in many developing regions of
Latin America, Africa, Asia and Oceania. There are some companies that
are trying to introduce insects into Western diets.



Entomophagy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entomophagy



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ETHNOENTOMOLOGY




Ethnoentomology is the study of the relationship between insects
and people. The name is derived from "ethno" - study of people
and "entomology" - study of insects. The focus of ethnoentomology
is on how insects have been or are being used in human societies
around the world. This includes insects used for food, rituals
and medicine. As with in entomology, the term is sometimes used
more broadly to encompass arthropods more broadly.



Insects in medicine


Traditional and Alternative Use of Insects in Medicine

The medicinal uses of insects were often defined by the Doctrine
of Signatures, which stated that an organism bearing parts that
resemble human body parts, animals, or other objects, was thought
to have useful relevance to those parts, animals or objects. So,
for example, the femurs of grasshoppers, which were said to
resemble the human liver, were used to treat liver ailments by the
indigenous peoples of Mexico.[1] This doctrine is common throughout
traditional and alternative medicine, but is most prominent where
medical traditions are broadly accepted, as in Traditional Chinese
Medicine and Ayurveda, and less by community and family based
medicine, as is more common in parts of Africa.



Ethnoentomology
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnoentomology



Entomology
Scientific Study of Insects

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entomology




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SECTION 3



HOW TO
IDENTIFY
EDIBLE INSECTS




Insects have become a trendy food because they are eco-friendly and
exotic. Unlike other meat animals such as cows and chickens, insects
don't release significant amounts of gases that harm the environment.
Although eating insects is a relatively new trend in the United States,
it has been a popular tradition in other countries such as Thailand for
some time. June beetles, crickets and cicada are three edible kinds of
insects. Crickets are said to taste earthly and have 12.9 grams of
protein per serving, while June beetles have over 13 grams per serving.



Instructions


Cicadas


1. Go out around midnight to look for the edible cicada larvae.
Periodical cicadas will emerge from the dirt between mid April
and early May. They can be found on the ground or clinging to
a surface preparing to molt.

2. Look for an insect with a very rotund body. The cicada larvae
will have a short, wide body that is about an inch in length.

3. See if the insect is whitish in color. When cicadas emerge from
the ground, they have very little color.

4. Check the insect's legs to make sure they are very thin in
comparison to the body. Although cicadas have large, rounded
bodies, they have quite thin legs.

5. Look at the face of the insect. Cicada's have broad faces with
large, bulbous eyes spaced far apart.

6. Make sure the insect doesn't have wings. If the cicada has wings,
it means that it has already molted and is now in the adult phase.
Adult cicadas are less commonly eaten because they have a harder
texture.



Field Crickets

7. Listen for a chirping sound. Male crickets make a very distinctive
chirping noise that can help you identify them easily.

8. Look at the size of the insect. When full grown, field crickets
will usually be between 1/2 inch and 1 1/8 inches long.

9. See if the insect has two long back legs that protrude from the
body and two antennae that are even longer than the body.

10. Make sure there are a pair of wings that lie flat against the
insect's back.

11. Look at the color of the insect. A field cricket is usually
black but can also exhibit a range of colors between straw yellow
and brownish yellow.



June Beetles

12. Look for this variety of scarab beetle at night in the spring.
They are often called June bugs, or May beetles, because they are
most common in the months of May and June. You can usually find
them around lights, as they are drawn to them in the dark.

13. See how large the beetle is. June beetles will usually be between
1/2 and 5/8 inch long as adults. They are stout in body shape.

14. Look for spiny legs, as June beetles have tiny spikes on their legs.

15. Make sure that the beetle is a reddish shade of brown on the top.

16. Turn the beetle over to look at its underside. June bugs have
cream-colored hairs on their abdomens, and the lower part of their
abdomen is a lighter shade of reddish-brown than their back.



Tips & Warnings


Not all insects are edible. In fact, some are quite poisonous.
Never eat an insect that you haven't identified as edible.



How to Identify Edible Insects
http://www.ehow.com/how_10013776_identify-edible-insects.html#ixzz2yS27Fs7l



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EDIBLE INSECTS
RELATED
TOPICS




How to Cook Insects for Food
http://www.ehow.com/how_2341567_cook-insects-food.html

List of Insects That Are Edible
http://www.ehow.com/list_6469540_list-edible-insects.html

How to Export Edible Insects From America
http://www.ehow.com/how_8792771_export-edible-insects-america.html

The List of Useful Insects
http://www.ehow.com/list_6673582_list-useful-insects.html

What Country's People Eat Insects?
http://www.ehow.com/info_8490255_countrys-people-eat-insects.html

Different Cultures That Eat Insects
http://www.ehow.com/info_8527323_different-cultures-eat-insects.html

How to Make Chocolate-Covered Insects
http://www.ehow.com/how_5415598_make-chocolatecovered-insects.html



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INSECTS
FOR
FOOD AND FEED




Edible insects contain high quality protein, vitamins and amino acids
for humans. Insects have a high food conversion rate, e.g. crickets
need six times less feed than cattle, four times less than sheep, and
twice less than pigs and broiler chickens to produce the same amount
of protein. Besides, they emit less greenhouse gases and ammonia than
conventional livestock. Insects can be grown on organic waste.

Therefore, insects are a potential source for conventional production
(mini-livestock) of protein, either for direct human consumption, or
indirectly in recomposed foods (with extracted protein from insects);
and as a protein source into feedstock mixtures.



Insects for food and feed
http://www.fao.org/edible-insects/en/



Insects for Food-Prep. 101
https://www.instructables.com/id/Insects-for-Food-Prep-101/




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EDIBLE INSECTS
ENTOMOPHAGY
ENTOMOPHAGE
LINKS




7 Insects You'll Be Eating in the Future
https://www.livescience.com/43901-eating-insects-bugs-entomophagy.html

11 Edible Insects and How to Eat Them
https://www.motherearthnews.com/real-food/edible-insects-zebz1305znsp

12 Delicious Edible Insects
http://www.oddee.com/item_97582.aspx

Cicada
http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/bugs/cicada/

Could insects be the wonder food of the future?
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20141014-time-to-put-bugs-on-the-menu

Eating Insects Isn't as Eco-Friendly As People Say
http://time.com/3824917/crickets-sustainable-protein/

Edible Bugs
http://webecoist.com/2009/07/07/eco-friendly-protein-edible-bugs/

Edible Insects
http://edibug.wordpress.com/list-of-edible-insects/

Edible Insects
http://www.mun.ca/biology/bpromoters/edibleinsects.php

Edible Insects
http://edibleinsect.net/

Edible Insects
http://www.fao.org/docrep/018/i3253e/i3253e00.htm



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Ethnoentomology
http://www.academia.edu/4420110/Ethnoentomology_A_neglected_theme_in_ethnopharmacology

Farming Insects For Food
https://goodlifepermaculture.com.au/farming-insects-for-food/

Field Cricket
http://www.westernpest.com/pest-library/field-cricket.html

The Future Of Edible Insects
https://thefutureofedibleinsects.com/tag/fda/

Good grub: 13 edible bugs
http://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/good-grub-13-edible-bugs/

How to Farm Insects at Home
https://modernfarmer.com/2013/06/small-scale-insect-farming/

Insects as Food
https://entomology.ca.uky.edu/content/insects-food

International Platform of Insects for Food and Feed (IPIFF)
http://ipiff.org/

Journal of Insects as Food and Feed
https://www.wageningenacademic.com/loi/jiff

June Beetle
http://insects.tamu.edu/fieldguide/bimg139.html

Keeping insects
https://www.keepinginsects.com/

List of Edible Insects
https://edibug.wordpress.com/list-of-edible-insects/

Periodical Cicadas
http://biology.clc.uc.edu/steincarter/cicadas.htm

Top 50 Edible Insects List
http://www.ediblebugfarm.com/blog/edible-insects-list/

U.N. Urges Eating Insects
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/13/130514-edible-insects-entomophagy-science-food-bugs-beetles/



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Insects
http://amazingfacts4u.com/category/insects/




Animals and Their Habitats
http://www.dpughphoto.com/index




Critter Catalog
http://www.biokids.umich.edu/critters/




The Encyclopedia of Life
http://eol.org/




The Xerces Society
http://www.xerces.org/




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