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  • Raw food at Bruno Comby's hotel and restaurant outside of Paris, France. Guests staying at the Chateau Montrame smell a number of fresh fruits, vegetables, meats, fish, nuts, and insects (all raw) before eating as much of them as they feel comfortable doing. Bruno Comby, author of "Delicious Insects" (in French) lives and works in the Orkos Institute in the 17th century Chateau Montrame. His institute serves a raw diet he calls "instinctology" and describes as the Paleolithic nutritional practice by early human hunter-gatherer ancestors. Comby grows insects in cages for food. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Guests staying at Bruno Comby's hotel and restaurant in the Chateau Montrame outside of Paris, France smell a number of fresh fruits, vegetables, meats, fish, nuts, and insects (all raw) before eating them. Bruno Comby, author of "Delicious Insects" (in French) lives and works in the Orkos Institute in the 17th century Chateau Montrame. His institute serves a raw diet he calls "instinctology" and describes as the Paleolithic nutritional practice by early human hunter-gatherer ancestors. Comby grows insects in cages for food. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Bruno Comby, author of "Delicious Insects" (in French) holds a grasshopper before eating it. Comby lives and works in the Orkos Institute in the 17th century Chateau Montrame outside of Paris. His institute serves a raw diet  he calls "instinctology" and describes as the Paleolithic nutritional practice by early human hunter-gatherer ancestors. Comby grows insects in cages for food. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Bruno Comby, author of "Delicious Insects" (in French) holds a grasshopper before eating it. Comby's lives and works in the Orkos Institute in the 17th century Chateau Montrame outside of Paris. His institute which serves a raw diet that is the basis of an eating discipline he calls "instinctology" and describes as the Paleolithic nutritional practice by early human hunter-gatherer ancestors. Comby grows insects in cages for food. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Stink bug (jumil, or Euchistus taxcoensi) paté, one of many insect-based dishes prepared by entomologist Julieta Ramos-Elorduy in her Mexico City kitchen; Ramos-Elorduy has created a cookbook of insect recipes comprised of insects such as mango-grasshopper chutney, blackwitch moth larvae salad and fruit salad with wasp honey. Mexico City, Mexico. (Man Eating Bugs page 119 Top.  See also page 6)
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  • "Grillos a la Papouasie" (Orthoptera gryitidae, crickets on rice): A gourmet recipe by entomologist Dr. Julieta Ramos-Elorduy of the University of Mexico City (UNAM) who has written a cookbook of insect food recipes. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • A pink plastic tray of fried cicadas, one of many insect varieties found for sale in Phnom Penh's Central Market, Cambodia. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Insect appetizers at the Kan Ron Ban Suan Restaurant in Chiang Mai, Thailand. (From bottom clockwise) June bugs, giant red ants (maeng man), grasshoppers (Crytaeanthacris tatarica), and mole crickets (Cryllotalpa africana). Served with sticky rice. Owner and chef is Mrs. Bang-orn Tuwanon..Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Arrangements of cold, canned, edible insects in an inn in Ina City. The various insects, zaza-mushi, grasshoppers, bee larvae, and silkworm pupae, are all cooked and canned in a brown sauce of sugar and soy, and therefore all possess the same flavor which masks their individual flavors, Ina City, Japan. (Man Eating Bugs page 36)
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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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  • Vendan women with their termite collecting equipment; sticks to penetrate into the termite mounds in order to retrieve the insects and bowls to collect them, Masetoni, Mpumalanga, South Africa. Fried termites are nutty and crunchy. (Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects)
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  • In the Cambodian town of Siem Reap, the gateway to the ruins of Angkor Wat, an ingenious device is popular among the townspeople for catching crickets. A black light is hung above a plastic sheet that glows with an ultraviolet hue attractive to insects. The crickets are attracted to the light, land on the sheet, and slip down into a bucket of water, where they promptly drown. The Liemh family deep-fries the crickets and sells them in the local market for 6,000 riels, $2.50 US, per small basket.  Siem Reap, Cambodia. (Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects page 50)
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  • Mealworm covered caramel apples is one of the many insect-based novelty sweets made by the Hotlix Candy Company, Pismo Beach, California. (Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects)
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  • Mango-Grasshopper Chutney prepared by Julieta Ramos-Elorduy, an entomologist in her Mexico City kitchen. She created a cookbook of recipes using insects. Mexico City, Mexico. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Avocado treehoppers being prepared by Julieta Ramos-Elorduy, an entomologist in her Mexico City kitchen. She created a cookbook of recipes using insects. She fries them to make a dish she calls Periquitos Fritos. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Pork loin with the honey of sting less bees known as "honey of the virgin" garnished with bee larvae prepared by Julieta Ramos-Elorduy, an entomologist in her Mexico City kitchen. She created a cookbook of recipes using insects. Mexico City, Mexico. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • "Mecapale Tamales" (Mecapales are the acquatic larvae of predacious diving beetles) prepared by Julieta Ramos-Elorduy, an entomologist in her Mexico City kitchen. She created a cookbook of recipes using insects. Mexico City, Mexico. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Mealworm spaghetti ("Spaghetti a la Melanesia") prepared by Julieta Ramos-Elorduy, an entomologist in her Mexico City kitchen. She created a cookbook of recipes using insects. (Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects)
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  • Fortino Rojas, the chef at Don Chon, a Mexico City restaurant specializing in pre- Hispanic dishes, including insects. Bottom row of plates, L to R: escamoles (giant ant larvae), and river crawfish; center: ahuauatles (fly larvae from Lake Texcoco); top row, L to R: chapulines (fried grasshoppers), jumiles (stink bugs), and red maguay worms..Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • .White agave worms in white wine served on avocados, prepared by Julieta Ramos-Elorduy, an entomologist in her Mexico City kitchen. She created a cookbook of recipes using insects. Mexico City, Mexico. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • "Ahuautle Amona": cream cheese cakes coated with ahuauatles (fly larvae from Lake Texcoco)) prepared by Julieta Ramos-Elorduy, an entomologist in her Mexico City kitchen. She created a cookbook of recipes using insects. Mexico City, Mexico. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Escamoles al Guajillo (escamoles are the larvae of giant ants and guajillos are spicy chili peppers) prepared by Julieta Ramos-Elorduy, an entomologist in her Mexico City kitchen. She created a cookbook of recipes using insects. Mexico City, Mexico. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Cresenciana Rodríguez Nieves, a 43-year-old doctor, displaying a spread of what she refers to as "Méxica" medicine, or various native plants, animals and insects used for medicinal purposes. She does not like the term "traditional" medicine for its certain pejorative connotations, but rather points to the heritage of her trade, which extends to a time before Europeans invaded her land. Puebla, Mexico. (Man Eating Bugs page 120)
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  • Russ Bassett and his father Dale who share a family business of raising crickets and mealworms, called Basset's Cricket Ranch. The insects they raise are used mostly for bait and pet shops (lizard food) but they do occasionally  supply the HotLix Candy Company with its crickets and mealworms. Visalia, California, United States. (Man Eating Bugs page 180 Top)
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  • Mopane worm sellers in a South African market in Thohoyandou claim the lack of rain to be attributable for the smaller than normal supply of the insects. Mpumalanga, South Africa. "Mopane" refers to the mopane tree, which the caterpillar eats. Dried mopane worms have three times the protein content of beef and can be stored for many months. (Man Eating Bugs page 127) .
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  • Oaxacan weaver Benito stands by prickly pear cacti with a mortar of ground cochineal; the red dye is made from boiling cochineal female scale insects (Dactylopius coccus) ((the males live blind only long enough to reproduce)) to remove their protective coatings, and then they are then ground into a red pasty dye. The cochineal feed off the prickly pear cacti. Oaxaca, Mexico. (Man Eating Bugs page 121)
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  • A traditional medicine doctor surrounded by his patients in the Fu Lin Tang Pharmacy. The doctor, and all those in the line, listen to a series of health ailments, after which the doctor then prescribes a specific prescriptions of herbs and insects, among other natural ingredients. Kunming, China. (Man Eating Bugs page 105 Top)
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  • Grasshoppers, with the wings removed, in the hand of a Vendan child in northeastern South Africa, collected from the field near his village. After a half-hour foraging, the grasshoppers are brought back to one of the mothers to cook and then the children eat them with porridge. The children couldn't agree on whether meat or insects taste best but all agree that the grasshoppers, as well as mopane worms, winged termites, and locusts are enjoyable. Masetoni Village, (Venda). South Africa. (Man Eating Bugs page 7 Top Left. See also page 136-137)
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  • Vendan children show off their haul of grasshoppers which one of their mothers cooks and serves with porridge. The children disagree on their preference of insects or meat, but all agree that the grasshoppers, as well as mopane worms, winged termites, and locusts, are adequate and enjoyable when no meat is available. Masetoni, Mpumalanga, South Africa. (Man Eating Bugs page 137 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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  • In Kunming, the capital city of the southern province of Yunnan, Fan Yuelian displays her family's home business, the raising of various insects such as live scorpions to be sold in the city's Bird and Flower Market, Kunming, China. The scorpions are raised in bins in her son's room, next to his bed. (Man Eating Bugs page 96 Top)
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Eric Pihl, 8, of Napa, California, is amazed to see a candied apple covered with dried meal worms from Hotlix Candy Factory, Pismo Beach, California. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • A mother sits with her daughters in the market in Taxco, a colonial silver mining town sixty miles southwest of Mexico City, Mexico. She is selling bags of the edible iodine-rich flying stinkbug, the jumil (Euchistus taxcoensis). The jumil is rich in iodine and consuming them prevents diseases resulting from iodine deficiency like goiters and thyroid problems. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Scorpions swarming at the Ru Yang Boda Scorpion Breeding Company, a new business in China's burgeoning market economy in Luo Yang, China. Scorpions in China are useful as both food and traditional Chinese medicine. Scorpions are in such demand that they are raised domestically (ranch style) by Chinese entrepreneurs. The Boda ranch's thirty employees are raising more than three million scorpions for public consumption in a football field-sized brick building. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • A live specimen of Theraphosa leblondi, the world's largest tarantula before being fire-roasted, by Yanomami boys, in Sejal village, near the Orinoco River, Venezuela. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Giant water bugs, (Lethocerus indicus) deep-fried in batter. Served as an appetizer at the Kan Ron Ban Suan Restaurant in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The owner and chef is Mrs. Bang-orn. She says, "Dip live water bugs in tempura batter and fry in medium vegetable oil until it turns golden and serve hot in sweet plum sauce. Appetizer or main course. For main course serve with sticky rice and chili sauce (Nam Prik).".Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • The Northern Province of South Africa, formerly the Northern Transvaal and now called the Mpumalanga, is home to the Vendan people. Here, Muditami Munzhedzi, in traditional Venda clothing, prepares the Vendan's daily staple of cornmeal porridge as well as mopane worms. Tshamulavhu, Mpumalanga, South Africa. "Mopane" refers to the mopane tree, which the caterpillar eats. Dried mopane worms have three times the protein content of beef and can be stored for many months. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Mopane worm merchants in the central market of Thohoyandou serve as the intermediaries between the worm wholesalers and individual customers. "Mopane" refers to the mopane tree, which the caterpillar eats. Dried mopane worms have three times the protein content of beef and can be stored for many months. Eaten dry the worms are hard, crispy, and woody tasting. Thohoyandou, South Africa. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Thirteen-year-old Venda youth, Azwifarwi, with his homemade Mercedes crafted of scrap wire, foam rubber and wood in order to push and steer around his village, Tshamulavhu village, Mpumalanga, South Africa. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • A group of South African village children play with a home made toy bus, ingeniously fashioned out of scrap wire. Tshamulavhu village, Mpumalanga, South Africa. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • A group of South African village children play with a home made toy bus, fashioned out of scrap wire. Tshamulavhu village, Mpumalanga, South Africa. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Ahuahuatles (fly larvae from Lake Texcoco), comparable to dry caviar, is a delicacy at Don Chon restaurant in Mexico City. The restaurant is famous for serving pre-hispanic food, including insets. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Cans of baby bees and grasshoppers sold by the Kaneman Company, Ina City, Japan. Portrait of the company owners. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Licensed zaza-mushi fisherman Kazumi Nakamura nets the larvae of the aquatic caddis fly which he later cooks by boiling, cleaning, and sautéing with soy sauce and sugar; the zaza-mushi are at the peak of their culinary quality when harvested from the coldest waters of the Tenru River in December and January, Ina City, Japan. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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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 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • A "barefoot doctor's" (traditional healer's) display of herbs and roots in the Sunday market in Menghan village, Xishaungbanna, China. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • A couple shows off a singing cricket in a little cage that a vendor is selling on the Bund in Shanghai, China. The crickets are pets, not food. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • A vendor naps in his stall at the old Qing Ping Market in Guangzhou, China. He sells dried snakes, scorpions, beetles, centipedes, shark fins, and caterpillar fungus..Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • The owner and chef of a restaurant in Kunming, China prepare live scorpions as a special treat for the visiting photographer from the USA. The live scorpions are put into rice wine for 30 seconds to anesthetize them. Their stingers are then clipped off and the scorpions are eaten whole. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • A bowl of scorpion soup in Guangzhou, China made by Li Shuiqi, a 26 year-old scorpion seller, and his roommate, You Zhiming, 25. The pair of salesmen was raising more than 10,000 scorpions in their apartment to sell in markets in Guangzhou, China. Scorpions in China are useful as both food and traditional Chinese medicine. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • A woman and her son choose scorpions for dinner in a market in Guangzhou, China's. Scorpions in China are useful as both food and traditional Chinese medicine. Scorpions are in such demand that they are raised domestically (ranch style) by Chinese entrepreneurs. They taste like sautéed twigs. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • A saleswoman at the middle market in Phnom Penh, Cambodia measures silkworm pupae. She also sells bee larvae (in blue tub). Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • A Cambodian saleswoman with a tray full of fried grasshoppers, one of many varieties found in Phnom Penh's Central Market, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Barbequed frogs in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Western Samoans hunting for palolo reef worms at night near Apia, Western Samoa. The rich taste of palolo is enjoyed raw or fried with butter, onions or eggs, or spread on toast. Palolo is the edible portion of a polychaete worm (Eunice viridis) that lives in shallow coral reefs throughout the south central Pacific. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Eric Pihl, 8, of Napa, California, looks at a candied apple covered with dried mealworms from Hotlix Candy Factory, Pismo Beach, California. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Seller Prossy Kasule in stall no. 68 of the Nakasero Market offers roasted and salted grasshoppers for sale, Kampala, Uganda. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Children in the village of Bweyogerere hunt for termites early in the morning by hacking into the termites' mounded earthen homes. They place a cloth in front of the entrance, and yank off the ants that attack the cloth. They pick them up by the rear, biting off their heads and throwing away the rear part. Or they collect them in a bowl to be roasted. Bweyogerere, Uganda. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Fried bamboo larva on a banana leaf with tomato roses, scalloped cucumbers and spring onions. In Thai the larvae are called rot duan, "express train," because they resemble tiny trains. They taste "like salty crispy shrimp puffs" says Peter Menzel. In the Kan Ron Ban Suan Restaurant, Chiang Mai, Thailand. (Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects)
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  • A teen-age boy snacking on dried, salted mopane worms near Lanseria, South Africa. Eaten dry the worms are hard, crispy, and woody tasting. The worms are so popular in South Africa that they have been over-harvested and are now only abundant in neighboring Botswana. "Mopane" refers to the mopane tree, which the caterpillar eats. Dried mopane worms have three times the protein content of beef and can be stored for many months. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Catherine Lemekwana with a mopane worm stew she prepared for her family using dried mopane worms, onions, garlic, salt, and curry in her home in Soweto, (South West Township), Johannesberg, South Africa. The harvest of mopane worms is a major economic event in Botswana where whole families move into the countryside and set up camp in order to collect the worms. Dried mopane worms have three times the protein content of beef and can be stored for many months. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Vendan women prepare the termites they have collected with their termite collecting sticks from a large termite mound near their village of Masetoni, Mpumalanga, South Africa. They are cleaning the termites by rinsing them in water, and then they fry them in oil and eat them with cornmeal porridge called mielie mielie. Fried termites are nutty and crunchy. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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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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  • Two farmers harvest some edible caterpillars that are infesting their cornfield in Puebla, Mexico. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Rosa Matíaz sells roasted and salted chapulines (grasshoppers, large on left and small on right) and live maguey worms (feeding on apple halves) in Oaxaca's Central Market, Oaxaca, Mexico. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • "Flan Chicatan" (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) is a desert cooked by entomologist Julieta Ramos-Elorduy in Mexico City. Large ants on fresh flan custard. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Leaf-footed bug pizza prepared by entomologist Julieta Ramos-Elorduy for her son Ernesto, hungry from an extended session of college homework. This is Ernesto's favorite dish. Mexico City, Mexico. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • In a basement sushi bar in Tokyo, Japan, Mariko Urabe prepares to eat an inago, a grasshopper. She had never eaten one before and wasn't particularly interested in eating this one. The second small bowl of appetizers contains silkworm pupae. As is true in many countries, food preferences are culturally based and don't necessarily extend to the entire country. (Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects)
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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