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  • One of the many rivers snaking through the Asmat, a large, steamy hot tidal swamp. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Faith D'Aluisio on the ride up the Unir River in a 40-foot longboat headed for Sawa village, Asmat swamp, Irian Jaya, Indonesia.(Man Eating Bugs page 186)
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  • A young Asmattan child in the village of Komor, along the Bo River, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. The Asmat is the worlds's largest (and hottest), swamp. (Man Eating Bugs page 64,65)
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  • Kids catch small fish at low tide between the elevated walkways that are the pedestrian roads of Agats, the largest town on the Arafura Sea in the Asmat, a large, steamy hot tidal swamp. Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Elevated walkways are the pedestrian roads of Agats, the largest town on the Arafura Sea in the Asmat, a large, steamy hot tidal swamp. Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Travel in this part of the world is by canoe or motorboat. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Sawa Village on the Pomats River in the Asmat, a large, steamy hot tidal swamp. Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Sawa Village on the Pomats River at low tide in the Asmat, a large, steamy hot tidal swamp. Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Fisherman in a dugout canoe at sunset on the Pomats River at Sawa Village, in the Asmat Swamp, a large, steamy hot tidal swamp. Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • A woman from Sawa Village on the Pomats River in the Asmat, a large, steamy hot tidal swamp, shows a jungle chicken egg which she has just dug up from a 6 foot mound where the bird has made a nest that looks like a compost hump. Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • A man from Sawa Village on the Pomats River in the Asmat, a large, steamy hot tidal swamp, shows a clump of a bee's nest containing edible larvae and honey, a sweet find in the sweaty swamp. Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Asmattan child with Ulat-Kayu (wood grub in Indonesia) down river from Sawa Village, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. (Man Eating Bugs page 75 Top) .
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  • Asmattan family displaying processed food, one of the results of a government logging initiative that has put cash in the pocket of a people unfamiliar with a monetary system, Sawa village, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. The father is blind in one eye due to a disease common to the area brought about by vitamin deficiencies. (Man Eating Bugs page 75 Bottom)
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  • Asmattans in the village of Komor convene to hear the assimilated Catholic and native Good Friday Mass given by one of the local missionaries, Brother Jim, in Komor village, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. The Asmat is a large, steamy hot tidal swamp. Men and women enter by different doors and sit on opposites sides of the church. They are carrying large pieces of heart of palm to share with each other. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • A group of loggers living in a jungle camp downriver from Sawa Village in the Asmat, a large, steamy hot tidal swamp in Irian Jaya, Indonesia. This group is logging the forest with hand axes, dragging the huge hardwood logs from deep in the forest over a long path of smaller cross logs. When they get to the river the logs are lashed together in rafts and floated down the river to sell to traders for cash or outboard boat motors. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Asmattans (Plipus Manmank's family) undergo the laborious task of sago processing?the goal is the inner starchy pith of the sago palm, which is mixed with water, roasted in dry leaves, and eaten. (There are many other ways to prepare and eat sago flour). Near the Komor Village, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. (Man Eating Bugs page 68)
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  • Villagers in the Asmat extract sago grubs from a rotted sago palm log. Sago grubs (Rhynchophorus ferrugineus, the larvae of Capricorn beetles), are extracted from the interior of a sago palm, Komor village, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. The Asmat is the world's largest (and hottest), swamp. When roasted on a spit, they are fatty and bacon-flavored, although the skins are rather chewy. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • In the Asmat, a wooden bowl holds a collection of freshly harvested sago grubs (Rhynchophorus ferrugineus, the larvae of Capricorn beetles), extracted from the interior of a sago palm, Komor village, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. The Asmat is the world's largest (and hottest), swamp. When roasted on a spit, they are fatty and bacon-flavored, although the skins are rather chewy. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • An Asmattan holds a collection of sago grubs (Rhynchophorus ferrugineus, the larvae of Capricorn beetles), extracted from the interior of a sago palm, in Komor, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. The Asmat is the worlds's largest (and hottest), swamp. When roasted on a spit, they are fatty and bacon-flavored, although the skins are rather chewy. (Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects)
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  • Skewered sago grubs (Rhynchophorus ferrugineus, the larvae of Capricorn beetles), roast over a fire in the longhouse in Sawa Village, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. When roasted on a spit, sago grubs are fatty and bacon-flavored, although the skins are rather chewy. (Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects)
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  • Skewered sago grubs (Rhynchophorus ferrugineus, the larvae of Capricorn beetles), roast over a fire near Komor Village, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. When roasted on a spit, sago grubs are fatty and bacon-flavored, although the skins are rather chewy. (Man Eating Bugs page 69 Bottom)
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  • An Asmat child eats a roasted sago grub (Rhynchophorus ferrugineus, the larvae of Capricorn beetles), cooked by his father in the jungle swamp where his family is processing its main staple food?sago pulp?from the sago palm tree in southernmost Irian Jaya, Indonesia. When roasted on a spit, sago grups are fatty and bacon-flavored, although the skins are rather chewy. (Man Eating Bugs page 69 Top)
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  • Two villagers prepare a dish made of sago grubs (Rhynchophorus ferrugineus, the larvae of Capricorn beetles), and sago flour wrapped in sago palm leaves. The packets are then roasted in the fire to prepare for eating, in Sawa Village, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. The resulting dish is like a cooked pastry, with a chewy, slightly sweet crust and the grubs taste like fishy bacon. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Rufina Dochan and Udelia Toronam prepare a dish which Rufina claims has no name, but is made of sago grubs (Rhynchophorus ferrugineus, the larvae of Capricorn beetles), and sago flour wrapped in sago palm leaves. The packets are then roasted in the fire, Sawa Village, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. The resulting dish is like a cooked pastry, with a chewy, slightly sweet crust and the grubs taste like fishy bacon. (MEB)
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  • A steaming sago "tamale" of sorts (actually, the dish is reputed to be without a    name) is made from sago grubs (Rhynchophorus ferrugineus, the larvae of Capricorn beetles), and sago flour wrapped in a sago palm leaf and roasted over a fire, Sawa Village, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. The resulting dish is like a cooked pastry, with a chewy, slightly sweet crust and the grubs taste like fishy bacon. (pages 72,73)
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  • Indonesian forest frog epaulettes, worn in jest, down river from the Sawa village, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. The frogs will be part of dinner. (Man Eating Bugs page 74 Bottom)
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  • On Good Friday in the Asmattan village of Komor, Faith D'Aluisio stands with a group of village youths in Komor village, Asmat swamp, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. (Man Eating Bugs page 187)
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  • Asmattans in the village of Komor convene to hear the assimilated Catholic and native Good Friday Mass given by one of the local missionaries, Brother Jim, Komor, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. (Man Eating Bugs page 66,67)
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  • Asmattan women in the village of Komor convene to hear the assimilated Catholic and native Good Friday Mass given by one of the local missionaries, Brother Jim, in Komor, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Men enter through another door and sit on the wooden floor on the other side of the church. The Asmat, on the Arafura Sea, is a large, steamy hot tidal swamp. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Young boys show symptoms of skin disease in Komor village in the Asmat. Komor village, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. The Asmat, a large, steamy hot tidal swamp. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • An Asmat native demonstrates the technique of cleaning the ear canal with a young sago grub. "You have to hold onto the tail", they caution, "never let go, you don't want the worm getting lost and coming out the other ear!" Down river from the Sawa village, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. (Man Eating Bugs page 74 Top)
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  • A typical house in Sawa Village on the Pomats River in the Asmat, a large, steamy hot tidal swamp. Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • A group of loggers living in a jungle camp downriver from Sawa Village in the Asmat, a large, steamy hot tidal swamp in Irian Jaya, Indonesia. The people in this camp is logging the forest with hand axes, dragging the huge hardwood logs from deep in the forest over a long path of smaller cross logs. When they get to the river the logs are lashed together in rafts and floated down the river to sell to traders for cash or outboard boat motors. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Freshly caught fish for sale in the market in Jayapura, Irian Jaya, Indonesia.
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  • A Dani child hunts for stink bugs that will be roasted later for a tasty morning snack, Soroba, Baliem Valley, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Man Eating Bugs page 78, top.
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  • Stink bugs hunted by Dani children will be roasted later for a tasty morning snack in Soroba, Baliem Valley, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Dani children show their "bug packages", a collection of twenty or so stink bugs wrapped in leaves to be roasted over a fire and eaten as a tasty protein snack, Soroba, Baliem Valley, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. (Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects)
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  • Dani children unwrap their roasted "bug packages", a collection of twenty or so stink bugs wrapped in leaves and set on the edge of a fire to roast as a small snack, Soroba, Baliem Valley, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. The kids also roast spiders, or mulikaks, on the glowing embers and eat them. (Man Eating Bugs page 78 Bottom)
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  • Martinus Himan, a Dani child with a mouthful of roasted stink bugs, Soroba Village, Baliem Valley, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. (Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects)
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  • Siba Himan and his wife Amuloke Walelo prepare the day's vegetables with the blood-red juice of the buah merah fruit, Soroba, Baliem Valley, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Siba wears a traditional penis gourd. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Traditional houses near Karima in the central highlands of Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Amuloke Walelo, a Dani tribeswoman from Soroba village in the Baliem Highlands of central Irian Jaya, Indonesia with one of her children on her shoulders as she goes about her daily chores. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Men shaving each other on a voyage upriver from the main town of Agats into the interior of the Asmat in Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Fisherman sell their catch early in the morning on the elevated walkways that are the pedestrian roads of Agats, the largest town on the Arafura Sea in the Asmat, a large, steamy hot tidal swamp. Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Travel in this part of the world is by canoe or motorboat. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • A cicada on a tree just before it was caught by a young child from Soroba village in the central highlands of Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Cicadas are roasted and eaten. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Amuloke Walelo and her husband prepare the day's vegetables with the blood-red juice of the buah merah fruit, Soroba, Baliem Valley, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. (Man Eating Bugs page 82,83)
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  • Amuloke Walelo, a Dani tribeswoman from Soroba village in the Baliem Highlands of central Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Four fingers of her left hand were severed when she was five years old as a tribute to family members who die. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • The disfigured hand of a Dani woman. In Dani culture, the fingers of women are severed from the first knuckle at an early age as a tribute to family members who have died. Amuloke: "My older sister died and my mother cut them (my fingers) off when I was five years old with a sharp stone axe, all of them at once. Now I feel a bit angry with my mother because she cut them. When I see the other fingers complete, I feel bad about it. The cut fingers aren't good for holding. They don't work very well." Soroba, Baliem Valley, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. (Man Eating Bugs page 82)
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  • A contrast of cultures (Tribal vs. Western) plays in front of the Wamena movie theater?Dani Highlanders in western dress beside a man wearing traditional Dani dress (a penis gourd), Wamena Village, Baliem Valley, Irian Jaya, Indonesia.(Man Eating Bugs page 76,77)
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  • Two men carry a pig to market in Jiwika, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. One man is wearing a traditional penis gourd and his friend is dressed in Western sports attire. Jiwika is in the Central Highlands of Irian Jaya. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Indonesian headman with ancestral mummy, Pummo Village, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. (Man Eating Bugs page 13).
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  • A praying mantis in the forest near Komor village in the Asmat swamp, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. (not eaten for food). Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Brightly painted wooden boats on Sanur Beach, Bali, Indonesia.
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  • Brightly painted wooden boats on Sanur Beach, Bali, Indonesia. At sunrise a woman rakes the beach before tourists arrive.
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  • Brightly painted wooden boats on Sanur Beach, Bali, Indonesia.
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  • An Indonesian woman holds a tray of honeycomb containing bee larvae. The honeycomb is an expensive and sought after commodity; it is boiled to release the bee larvae, which are then cooked with coconut oil, garlic, onion, chiles, lemon, fermented fish, sliced green papaya, long beans, and greens, Ubud, Bali, Indonesia. (Man Eating Bugs page 63)
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  • Rice fields near Ubud, Bali, Indonesia.
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  • Rice fields on a volcanic slope, near the village of Ubud at Penatahan, Bali, Indonesia (Indonesia is the world's fourth most populated country).(page 56,57) Indonesian children hunt dragonflies with a specialized capture and retrieve method?each individual dragonfly is spotted, then snagged with sticky jack fruit sap stuck on the end of an extended bamboo whip in the rice fields. This practice has become rarer as Indonesians become wealthier.
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  • A farmer works in his terraced rice fields at Penatahan, near Ubud, Bali, Indonesia.
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  • In a rice paddy near Ubud, Bali (Indonesia), a young boy catches dragonflies with a wand made from jackfruit palm frond stem tipped with sticky jackfruit sap. He pulls the dragonfly off the end of the wand before skewering it on a stick to take home. Past generation of Balinese kids routinely caught dragonflies this way, then dewinged, and stir-fried them with coconut oil: a crispy protein snack. This practice has mostly disappeared due to a more prosperous population that has ready access to chicken. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • In a rice paddy near Ubud, Bali (Indonesia), dragonflies are skewered on a stick. Young children catch dragonflies with a wand made from jackfruit palm frond stem tipped with sticky jackfruit sap. Past generation of Balinese kids routinely caught dragonflies this way, then dewinged, and stir-fried them with coconut oil: a crispy protein snack. This practice has mostly disappeared due to a more prosperous population that has ready access to chicken. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • In a rice paddy near Ubud, Bali (Indonesia), a young boy catches dragonflies with a wand made from jackfruit palm frond stem tipped with sticky jackfruit sap. Past generation of Balinese kids routinely caught dragonflies this way, then dewinged, and stir-fried them: a crispy protein snack. This practice has mostly disappeared due to a more prosperous population that has ready access to chicken. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • An Indonesian child (8-year-old Ni Wayan Sriyani) displays the fruits of her hunt in a rice paddy (captured dragonflies) to be fried later in coconut oil and eaten like candy, Batuan, Bali, Indonesia.(Man Eating Bugs page 58,59)
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  • Indonesian children hunt dragonflies with a specialized capture and retrieve method?each individual dragonfly is spotted, then snagged with sticky jack fruit sap on the end of an extended bamboo whip in the rice fields, Batuan, Bali, Indonesia. (Man Eating Bugs page 60 Top)
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  • Dragonflies, de-winged, salted, and fried in coconut oil, Bali, Indonesia.(Man Eating Bugs page 60 Bottom)
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  • Dragonflies, de-winged, salted, and fried in coconut oil, with a sweet pepper garnish, over steamed rice; in a guesthouse in Ubud, Bali, Indonesia. (page 56 Inset.  See also page 7)
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  • The central market in Ubud, Bali, Indonesia, where it possible to find lotus pods, rambutan fruits, lychee nuts, edible cactus pears, and the expensive and sought-after bee larvae. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • The Ubud market in which can be found lotus pods, rambutan fruits, lychee nuts, edible cactus pears, and the expensive and sought after bee larvae, Ubud, Bali, Indonesia. (page 62, 63)
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  • After hunting dragonflies in a rice field with a homemade bamboo whip tipped with sticky jack fruit sap, an Indonesian boy treats himself to a short swim under a waterfall, Batuan, Bali, Indonesia.(Man Eating Bugs page 61) 
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  • After hunting dragonflies in a rice field with a homemade whip tipped with sticky jackfruit sap, an Indonesian boy treats himself to a short swim under a waterfall in Batuan, Bali, Indonesia. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • A young monkey clings to a stone sculpture at a temple in the monkey forest near Ubud, Bali, Indonesia.
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