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Man Eating Bugs: Peru

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  • View from Rt. 103, a dirt road over a 4,000 meter mountain pass, in the Andes between Calca and Kiteni, Peru. (Man Eating Bugs page 158,159)
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  • Route 103 in Peru over the Andes snakes down into the lowland jungles near the Alta Urubamba River in Peru. The road was traveled during the rainy season and there were many washouts and landslides. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Two young Inca herders smile shyly at the camera before disappearing down the mountainside to tend their llamas and sheep in the high mountain passes above the city of Cuzco on the southern slopes of the Andes. (Man Eating Bugs page 150,151)
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  • Nicasio Huaman cuts the mature seed head stems of the arawanku plant to reach the tanyo kuro worms, Urubamba River Valley, Chicón, Peru. (Man Eating Bugs page 152.)
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  • Asensia and Carmen Huaman cook tanyo kuro worms in a clay pot over a fire in the family's kitchen while guinea pigs (cuy), also a food source for these Peruvians, feed on the muddy floor. Asensia says her family always eats worms with parch corn. This is corn that dries completely on the stalk before harvesting. It's heated on the fire until its kernels plump up slightly. This makes a nutritionally sound combination: Corn and worms each lack essential amino acids, but together they provide a balanced meal. Chicón, Peru. (Man Eating Bugs page 152,153)
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  • Dry roasted parch corn and tanyo kuro worms, Chicón, Peru. Asensia says her family always eats worms with parch corn. This is corn that dries completely on the stalk before harvesting. It's heated on the fire until its kernels plump up slightly. This makes a nutritionally sound combination: Corn and worms each lack essential amino acids, but together they provide a balanced meal. (Man Eating Bugs page 151 Inset)
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  • A split tayanca tree reveals a waykjuiro worm. Ocra Katunki, Peru. These worms are either cooked directly on the embers of a fire, or roasted in a frying pan. (Man Eating Bugs page 154 Bottom)
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  • The Salvador Ticona-Ramos family shares freshly harvested and fried waykjuiro worms in the courtyard of their home in Chinchapuijo, Peru. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Children of the Ochoas family waiting while their mother, Bernadina, prepares a breakfast treat of roasted waykjuiro worms, Chinchapujio, Peru. (Man Eating Bugs page 154 Top)
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  • Salvador Ticona displays his collection of fuzzy waytampu caterpillars. The caterpillars aren't edible until the pupal stage, Salvador keeps the larvae on the trees in his courtyard until they mature. Chinchapuijo, Peru. (Man Eating Bugs page 156)
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  • Peru over the Andes snakes down into the lowland jungles near the Alta Urubamba River in Peru. The road was traveled during the rainy season and there were many washouts and landslides. Villagers travel in the back of large trucks that serve as busses. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Foot bridge over the Alta Yanatile River in the town of Santiago, off Rt. 103, Peru. (Man Eating Bugs page 164,165)
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  • Daniel Piña Real chops through the invested wood of a pansona tree in search of chiro worms (the larvae of longhorn beetles from the family Cerambycidae), while his daughter, Marleni, 16, and son, Ramiro, 14, take part. Near the Yanatile River, Koribeni, Peru. (Man Eating Bugs page 160 Top)
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  • Young Daniel Piña Real, 4, displays his lunch of live fried chiro worms (the larvae of longhorn beetles from the family Cerambycidae ) the worms were pulled from the infected trunk of a pansona tree by Daniel's father and siblings, and were prepared by Marleni, his older sister. Koribeni, Peru. (page 161)
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  • Live chiro worms (the larvae of longhorn beetles from the family Cerambycidae), in a frying pan with vegetable oil, comprise the lunch prepared by Marleni Real, 16, for her father and brother, Koribeni, Peru. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Live chiro worms (the larvae of longhorn beetles from the family Cerambycidae), in a frying pan with vegetable oil, comprise the lunch prepared by Marleni Real, 16, for her father and brother, in Koribeni, Peru. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • A rural Peruvian girl displays her catch of a chanchu chanchu (Megaloptera Corydyalus armatus Hagen) river insects. The insects are pulled from the undersides of river rocks near the Yanatile River, Koribeni, Peru. (Man Eating Bugs page 157)
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  • The kisa-kisa caterpillar is brightly colored and attractive, but is poisonous to eat. Along the Alta Urubamba River, Yaneriato, Peru. (Man Eating Bugs page 162 Top)
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  • Maximo Katiga with a movable feast of edible insects (palm grubs, chanchu-chanchu (Megaloptera Corydyalus armatus Hagen), green and white worms, and beetles, on the Alta Urubamba River, Yaneriato, Peru.(Man Eating Bugs page 162,163)
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  • Solomon Mintiani and child (Machigüenga indians) eat sun-warmed raw palm grubs, on the Alta Urubamba River, Yaneriato, Peru. (Man Eating Bugs page 162 Bottom)
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  • Local farmers and traders going upriver on the Alta Urubamba River near Yaneriato, Peru. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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