12 Garden Insects You Can Eat
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Those Japanese Beetles make me so mad!
Hornworms are destroying my tomatoes!
Revenge can be sweet.
Roasted Katydids are one of my favorites; they taste kind of like pistachio nuts. I can eat crickets all day, but I have to say, earthworms have not hit my palate yet. They’re kind of gross. Survival food.
While it’s true that most people here in the United States recoil at the thought of eating a bug, billions of people worldwide eat them every day.
Our southern neighbor, Mexico, enjoys over 200 different insects. There are over 20,000 insect farms in Thailand, and one of Cambodia’s top exports is edible insects. The Mopane Worm is a staple food in Zimbabwe, the Witchety Grub in Australia, Queen Ant larvae are a delicacy in Columbia. It’s evident that here in the United States and Canada, we’re the ones missing out.
The only reason we don’t eat insects is that we have an unwarranted cultural fear. Our distaste for insects…
