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Stink Bug Jumil Festival in Mexico

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Sixty miles southwest of Mexico City, schoolchildren in the town of Taxco celebrate Jumil Day, a festival in which crowds gather for the ritual harvesting and eating of jumiles (a type of stink bug, Euchistus taxcoensis). Taxco, Mexico. (Man Eating Bugs page 106,107)

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Sixty miles southwest of Mexico City, schoolchildren in the town of Taxco celebrate Jumil Day, a festival in which crowds gather for the ritual harvesting and eating of jumiles (a type of stink bug, Euchistus taxcoensis). Taxco, Mexico. (Man Eating Bugs page 106,107)
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